1877] Rivers of Georgia 



unites lower down with the former to make the 

 Santee. Afterward, passing westward, we collected 

 from the headwaters of the Savannah, Chatta- 

 hoochee, and Oconee to Atlanta. 



In Atlanta we called on Alexander H. Stephens, late Stephens 

 Vice-President of the Confederate States, who enter- 

 tained us with interesting reminiscences. Stephens 

 was a man of dwarfish stature but powerful mind; 

 he had been strongly opposed to secession and all its 

 ways, yet when his own state (Georgia) went out of 

 the Union, he felt, as did Robert E. Lee and others 

 placed in a similar position, that he had no alterna- 

 tive but to espouse the Confederate cause. 



We next brought up at Rome, my former station Rome 

 on the Etowah. Here our gruff host of 1876, re- a *> ain 

 ferring to Gilbert, remarked, "I see you keep the 

 same cub." In Rome we secured a number of 

 young mocking birds, of which two, Mimus and 

 Charmian, developed into superb singers. Once 1 

 put a tame brown thrasher, an excellent songster 

 not much inferior to the mocking bird, into the 

 cage with Mimus. The thrasher was the larger, but 

 Mimus behaved like a veritable tyrant, never al- 

 lowing him to sing at all. 



Returning northward, we climbed Kenesaw Moun- 

 tain, fought over in the Civil War, and then moved 

 on to examine the fishes of Chickamauga River, 

 similarly famous. 



The large collections made on this trip were duly 

 described by Jordan and Brayton in Bulletin 12 of 

 the United States National Museum. 



At Christmas, Baird placed in my hands for 

 critical study all the specimens of salmon and trout 



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