CORRESPONDENCE 203 



MiLLTOWN, 24 June, 1869. 

 My Dear Professor: 



1 received your letter of the 20th to-day, glad to hear you are 

 all well. Mrs. Boardman is some better part of the time. Most of 

 the trouble is with her head. I keep her out ridiug all I can. 

 Have just been out to the cemetery ; shot a uew kind of Pewee. I 

 will let you tell me the name when you get here. If the short 

 legged Pewee ever came here should call it that bird, as it is not 

 large enough for Olive Sided. There were two but I could not 

 find the nest and had to be contented with the bird. 



Your friend, Senator Edmunds from "Vermont, has been down 

 on his salmon fishing cruise, went home this morning perfectly 

 happy. I could not leave and Fred went up to the lakes with 

 him. They were gone one week; had a very nice time; caught 

 more of those little salmon than was necessary for sport. Caught 

 two hundred ; some weighed four pounds, averaged two pounds. 

 Fred told the Senator about the Indian things in the banks and he 

 dug out a nice arrow head and part of a spear. I think the latter, 

 i. e., Indian things, were on your permit, and the Senator had no 

 right to anything but the fish. I believe I told you I got one of 

 the lake salmon last fall that weighed over ten pounds. I have it 

 nicely mounted. 



I am glad you are getting so many nice things from the other 

 side ; they are very good to compare, and I am of the opinion that 

 many of the European birds that we have given a different name 

 are not much different from American. 



I notice what you say about making Eastport your head- 

 quarters. The new hotel is not yet opened, don't know when 

 it mil be, but probably pretty soon. They liave been so tardy, 

 not knowing who will keep the house, they have no boarders 

 engaged. The air is very fine in summer at Eastport, but the 

 company is ten times better at Milltown, and much better dig- 

 gings of India^ -Qmaius. I have been looking for a good boarding 

 place here, but .-, ;t find anything that will do. It is almost 

 impossible tO; i help, but thought we could take good care 



of you, and I ;oardman been as well as usual would not let 



you have go other place, and at any rate, must be with 



us part of t id will have plenty of chance to look up a 



