Diaries of field trips, 1896, 1904, 1905, 1906
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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.