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peace, wanting nothing but the small fishes which 

 infest the shallows below his little cascade. 



On our way to Flat Shoals we saw on the left stone 

 side of the train what seemed to be a gigantic boulder, ^^o"«''^^" 

 a thousand feet in diameter. This was Stone Moun- 

 tain, of which we had never before heard. Greatly 

 impressed, we left the train at the first station and 

 went back to climb the stupendous rock. For not- 

 withstanding its size it looks like a boulder, al- 

 though, as a matter of fact, it must owe its stark 

 isolation to erosion of the softer deposits of which 

 it was once the core. It appears that Borglum, the 

 sculptor, began the work of carving on its majestic 

 side a panoramic frieze symbolic of incidents of the 

 Civil War, an effort checked by the war in Europe. 



Our expedition as a whole was extremely success- 

 ful, and its results were embodied in a paper en- 

 titled **The Fishes of Upper Georgia," the first of 

 my numerous monographic reviews of local 

 faunas. 



In December I was called to Columbus, Ohio, by 

 John H. Klippart, State Fish Commissioner, who 

 wished me to write an account of the food fishes of 

 Ohio. This I did fairly well during the course of 

 the winter. 



Klippart spoke frankly to me of the difiiculties Hayes 

 which then beset his friend and neighbor, Ruther- ^[^^^^ 

 ford B. Hayes, the former governor. Mr. Hayes 

 was about to start for Washington to take his seat 

 as President of the United States, his title clouded 

 by an election of doubtful validity, forced through 

 by a hard-minded group of politicians whom he could 

 never honorably serve or please. A man of high 



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