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Ossefee
Thursday July 24
We did nothing I note in
the afternoon but in the after
noon we (Alfred, Norman and I)
went up to Danhole Pond. We
parked at a meadow below the
junction of the roads below the One
ass started for the mountain-top
where the Herons used to nest.
As we did not start from the
site of the old millyard, we
did not strike the old logging
road, but we had no difficulty in
finding our way up through the
woods to the summit. Here the
general contours looked natural
but the woods where the Herons
used to have been seen.
Near the summit was a burn
where the ground was covered
with raspberries, and near
the herons had trampled down
many paths in eating the
berries. They had also
dug up some old squirrel
caches, as I had torn the
back from stumps in
this search for nuts.
On the summit which
was nearly clear white
flumes, at which had
accidentally been a pasture