THE OUTDOOR WORLD 



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IN SHADOWY WATER FROM THE WIRE MILLS. 

 "River upper right; tailrace upper left. 



of the cholera which raged there in 1832. 

 After Miss Chesebrough had returned 

 to her home in New York, the all "im- 

 portant question" was settled by letter. 

 Mr. Davenport was such a modest bach- 

 elor of forty. The same quarters of Mr. 

 Davenport at Roxbury thirty years af- 

 terwards Mrs. Davenport moved to on 

 account of the draft riots in New York 

 in 1861. 



In 1835 the firm of Davenport & 

 Weeks was merged in that of the Still- 

 water Company. All the rolling, etc., 

 was done at Stillwater and the wire 

 drawing at Roxbury. 



As late as 1881 Elbert White made 

 pump chain on his own account at the 

 Roxbury wire mill with the machinery 

 put in by the Stillwater Company sev- 

 eral years before. 



About thirty-five years ago the old 

 sawmill was torn down, a new one from 

 Georgetown, Connecticut, erected in its 

 place and rented to Henry Kirtland, who 

 sawed logs to order, etc. He also rented 

 the upper mill and put in machinery for 



turning handles, etc. Both have since 

 been wrecked by time, but the east half 

 of the dam still remains. 



The Intelligence and Ingenuity of 

 Trees. 



BY DR. GEORGE M. GOULD, ITHACA, N. Y. 



The; Guide to Nature has recently 

 reproduced photographs of trees which 

 illustrate some of the methods by 

 which these interesting organisms 

 overcome, obviate, or succumb to, dif- 

 ficulties encountered by accidents or 

 the conditions of their growth. Such 

 studies as that of the curious root- 

 growth by Dorothy A. Baldwin, of "The 

 United Oaks near the Cabin," of the 

 photograph ot an old tree by Mr. 

 Frank P. Jewett, in late issues, are 

 most suggestive. I do not know if the 

 subject of the intelligence exhibited 

 by trees has ever been adequately 

 treated and pictorially illustrated by 

 a competent and sympathetic student, 



