1878] Explorations Continued 



The following summer (1878) I went on another Second 

 trip to the South and with a still larger group of 

 companions. These included Brayton, Gilbert, Bar- 

 ton W. Evermann and his wife both workers in 

 my laboratory at Butler and later at Bloomington, 

 while with Evermann himself my scientific relations 

 have been continuous Miss Clapp, whose acquain- 

 tance I had made at Penikese, and several excellent 

 young students. Among the last were Charles Mer- 

 rill, afterward partner in the well-known publishing 

 firm, the Bobbs-Merrill Company of Indianapolis, 

 Charles Moores, a cousin of the former, also a sincere 

 and delightful mountain lover, and Horace G. Smith, 

 a genial young fellow. 



This year our line of march lay from Somerset, Ken- 

 tucky, past High Bridge and the quaint "Shaker" 

 settlement at Pleasant Hill, to Cumberland Gap, 

 thence by way of Jacksboro and Wolf Creek to the 

 French Broad, then across the "Great Smokies" and 

 Blue Ridge to Rabun Gap and the Gorge of the 

 Tallulah in northern Georgia 550 miles on foot, 

 besides occasional stretches of railway, the whole 

 consuming just one month's time. 



For a little while one day an elderly lady shared A tragic 

 my seat in the train. Entering into conversation, situation 

 she recounted an experience which had shadowed 

 her life ever since the Civil War. Her plantation 

 in northern Mississippi lay near the battlefield of 

 Shiloh, between the two opposing armies. A young 

 Union sergeant from Ohio, leader of a little picket 

 guard, used to come sometimes to see her to talk 



