Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Harvard University Botany Libraries.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
July 30, 1904, Saturday, Continued
the "Forks" there was a fall of a few feet known as the
"Falls". Pease and I both got out and walked past the
"Falls". We had dinner at the "Forks" and then came
down in the P. M. to Breule' Brook where Mr. Robertson's
son met us with the team and drove us to the Cascapedia
House.
July 31, 1904, Sunday
Cloudy and rainy. Fernald, Pease, and I have been working
practically all day taking care of specimens collected.
on the Little Cascapedia River trip. After supper we
walked down the shore a short distance.
August 1, 1904, Monday
Rainy in the late A. M. Otherwise cloudy. All A. M.
Fernald, Pease, and I were working on plants. In the
P. M. we botanized through the cedar swamp(muskeag) back
of the hotel. In the evening we took care of part of
the specimens collected (until dark) and then we walked
down to the spring off the beach for a few minutes.
August 2, 1904, Tuesday
Cloudy. Got up at 5.00 A. M. and finished taking care of
specimens collected yesterday. After breakfast packed
trunks and after an early dinner we were driven( by Mr.
Robertson's grandson) in a team to the station. We went
to Bonaventure River via 11.48 A. M. train. Went to
Le Blanc's House and late in the P. M. we all went out
into a salt marsh back of the hotel. Fernald and Pease
get lots of interesting plants but I got only two or three
common mosses. After supper Fernald and Pease worked
awhile on the plants collected.