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Sunday Nov 25
Wilmington to Portsmouth
Left about 8.25 and took the
road by New Bern, Washington,
Lumbus, Edenton, Elizabeth
City, Wallacetom and Portsmouth
where we put up at its monase
We saw a Cooper's & Sparrow
Hawks near Woodboro
Tore a black berried shrub,
a blue flower
myrica cardromensis near
Williamston. N.C.
Magnolia grandiflora in grove
New Washington-
Live Oak near Elizabeth City
Spanish moss m valley
of Roanoke River
From Elizabeth City, we went
one crouned 14 Pasquotank Run
or South miles and followed
the Canal N. past Wallacetom
to Portsmouth
Redshoulder Hawk near Wallacetom