December 16-1911. Saturday Started this morning at 8 for New York City and at 12.38 from the Penn. R.R. Station direct for Jacksonville Florida, Arrived at Washington at 6.10 and left at 6.30 P.M. Rained all day. Distance from New Haven to Jacksonville is about 1165 miles. Sunday. December 17-19.11. at 8 (Camden D.C.) A cloudy Sunday morning among the stunted cotton fields. The vegetation is as dead here as in the north. The young forest where it still stands consists of oaks and long needle pines. The soil is sandy and so far as I can be made out from the cores minerals in the Potomac formation. It is the yellowish or variegated red or reddish clays and sands, overlain in places by the Loafazette. I see no lime-stone nodules. In any event it is a continental deposit. The upper layers of it have given a deep orangey red ejects smattering. The country is undulating, the farms poor and nearly all the houses small and of the poorest kind. This is to the north of Camden. Corn and cotton the chief products. One sees almost