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July 25, 1904, Monday
Cloudy- warm. All three of us devoted the entire A. M.
to taking care of the plants. In the early R. M. Pease
and I went to Tracadigash Point and got some Botrychrum
lunaria, and so forth. Fernald went by way of the steamer
"Admiral" to Dalhousie on his way to St. John to cash some
checks and get some sneakers. In the evening Pease and
I collected on Carleton Point.
July 26, 1904, Tuesday
Cloudy and very warm in the A. M. Rainy in the evening.
In early A. M. Pease and I worked on plants until about
ten o'clock. We then walked up the road to the west for
a half mile or so beyond the old carding mill and then
turned north to the base of the "Sandstone" Hills . We
walked up( very slowly) the first one and worked down
over one or two cliffs after eating a lunch on top. We
botanized to the westward to a ravine and then came down
that and started for a radar swamp to the south. We
heard falling water over to the northwest and decided
to investigate. After caching the packs under some bushes
we walked up the road along the slope of the hill to
about 650 feet above sea level and then followed a brook
down, which fell in continuous cascades and falls for 300
feet, measured by the barometer, in a very short distance.
Pease and I had to use the rope in the greater part of the
descent.. When we reached the open we had to maneuver a
little to secure our ruck sacks. We found a beligerent bull
in the field where we had cached our packs. I had to walk
down/ the fence for perhaps an eighth of a mile while Pease
kept out of sight. I finally got the bull where some
bushes obstructed his view of Pease, who then rescued/ them.