On the trip back from Jacksonville last week I, for the most part, followed the same route that John Muir took across the state to reach Cedar Key and the Gulf of Mexico. He followed the path of the war disabled Florida Rail Road from Fernandina Beach on the Atlantic side. The Florida Rail Road was inspired by David Levy Yulee the first Jewish US senator and southern sympathizer who contrived a 125 mile rail road that would connect the east and west coasts of Florida and reduce by 1000 miles what
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