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Saint Augustine
View at top: Castillo de San Marcos, Saint Augustine
Audubon's party arrived in St. Augustine on November 20, 1831. Until
March 5, 1832, they hunted birds in northeast Florida. They visited the
plantations of General Hernandez, John Bulow (now a state historic site
near Ormond Beach), and Colonel Orlando Rees, and explored the Halifax
and St. Johns Rivers.
"When the United States purchased the peninsula from the Spanish Government,
the representations given of it by Mr. Bartram and other poetical writers,
were soon found greatly to exceed the reality."
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