cloud of dust is apparent all the time and quite a cloud of steam and dust arrives at the time of explosion. It explodes about every ten minutes and sounds like thunder. It has carried fire & all heat all follow. July 11 This morning we took a try at the north side of the farm. Here there is less cultivation and more rolling open country. I saw on it a hawk in a tree and fired at him once, but failed to bring him down. He flew only a short distance and started calling and I walked up on him quite easily. It is evidently a juv. Tilly. Goshawk. Did get an adult male later. They certainly were tame and uneducated. My hawk had eaten nothing. The adult had mammal remains in the stomach. I shot one of the Robins – a male which was in the very height of breeding but nevertheless mating. They