BY EDWARD DOUBLEDAY. 29 



Night-hawk's squeak is very singular ; they fly much earlier 

 than ours ; I have heard them two hours before sunset, and 

 they sometimes fly as early as two o'clock on cloudy days. 

 There are two species of Sandpiper. 



There are still very few Coleoptera, fewer than I expected, 

 but the moth-catching goes on in the bar-room ; our friends 

 here get out their flutes and music books, (the moths seem to 

 like the sound of music, always coming in when it is played,) 

 I, and R. Foster, our nets and boxes, and thus we sit till ten 

 o'clock. 



There are many beautiful little crystals found in the rocks 

 here ; the children collect them, and bring them to the house 

 to sell to visitors. I have, in a former letter, much under- 

 rated the height of the falls ; the High Falls are above one 

 hundred feet ; looking from above, they do not appear so 

 much. The walk, for two or three miles along the rock, only 

 safe when the water is very low, is most grand : a few days 

 ago this walk was blocked up by a huge Hemlock falling from 

 the top of the rocks ; although three feet in diameter, it was 

 broken short into four pieces by the fall ; we soon rolled it 

 into the stream, to be whirled along over the rocks. The 

 Hemlocks here are from ninety to one hundred and ten feet 

 high, and at three and a half feet from the ground are three 

 feet in diameter. The Cypresses here are also very large ; 

 I have seen many which I could not clasp with my arms 

 within two or three feet. The largest tree I have seen is a 

 broad- leaved Elm, which, having been blown down, lies 

 rotting, with hundreds of other fine timber trees; I could not 

 get at the lower end to measure it, but, six yards from the root, 

 it measured five and a half feet in diameter. I climbed it, and 

 walked along it as it lay for ninety feet, for which length it is 

 perfectly straight, and here branches into three limbs, each of 

 which we should (in England) call a fine timber tree. 



June ""ith. — To-day I have taken Lyccvna Phkeas, and a most 

 beautiful MeliUva. P. Turmis comes to the lilacs. I am now 

 looked on as one of the family here, and feel myself so. We 

 have a few visitors here, some of them very pleasant people ; 

 they seldom stay more than one day. I catch moths in the 

 bar-room, quite regardless of attracting the attention of 

 strangers. There is no troublesome curiosity in the Americans 

 I have met with : if they ask questions, it is with a desire of 



