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meter, bearing two ripe berries and one unripe. The apple- 

 trees from Boston to Lowell exhibited leafless trunks ; and, on 

 inspection, I found the cankerworm which was said to have 

 destroyed them had disappeared. 



At Newburghport the noise of toads and land turtles, in the 

 evenings, was deafening. At Lowell we first became ac 

 quainted with the call of the bull-frog, which in loudness and 

 expression strongly resembles the note of the English bull. 



