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Tomoka rivers. The voyage ended at a log cabin on the banks of the
Tomoka River where lunch was served in wild and semi-tropical
surroundings.

The Coast Gazette, dated March 20, 1890, reported: "That a new
road adjacent to the hotel (The Ormond) is opening to Mount Oswald,
(present-day Tomoka State Park), is going to be a beautiful drive right
through the jungle. John Anderson and some others at the hotel are
having a road opened so the hotel Tally Ho Coach and open
buckboard excursions can treat the guests to a wonderful drive.
They'll come across the bridge, go north along our Ormond River
Road (later to be named N Beach) to this new road and on north
about five miles to the new Mount Oswald picnic ground. Last Sunday
a party from town drove through the woods over the new road which
has just been opened to Mount Oswald. Vague rumors of the
attractiveness of the scenery had been told by wandering hunters
and surveyors, but still little was known of the real character of the
land...

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