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August 19, 1904, Friday, (Continued)
to drive us for $10 tomorrow. While Fernald was down
at White Cape Pease and I walked down to the fish
drying houses and took some pictures. We then came
back over Cape Cannon and went to the top of Mount Joli
and then down to the beach and as it was low tide we
walked across to the base of Perce' Rock. Upon our
return we had dinner and then dried driers and at 3.00 P.M.
we all started for the Grand Coupe where we botanized
all the afternoon until seven o'clock during which we
worked up the cliffs for three hundred feet. I walked
a mile or more to the westward along a road and saw
the great cliffs beyond (Terriere les Caps). In the
evening took care of the specimens collected.
August 20, 1904, Saturday
Fair and cool. Had breakfast at Trache's at five-thirty
o'clock and immediately got baggage ready for Mr. Moran
who was to have called for us at 6.00 A. M. On account
of some delay he did not arrive until 7.30 A. M. We
started at once and went via the road south of Mt. Ste.
Anne and Perce' Mountain to Corner Beach, which made one
of the most picturesque rides I ever took. From our
starting point (at sea level) we ascended 925 feet in
the first two miles and then zigzagged down the south
and west slopes of Perce' Mountain. At Barachois we were
charged $2 for ferrying our two teams. We had dinner
(an excellent one) at Japps Hotel and then drove on to
Douglastown and secured quarters at Fred Kennedy's. Before
supper we walked down on the barachois, to the Post Office
and back. For supper we had ham and eggs, potatoes, milk,
blueberries, etc.