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Fig. XLIV. Young pine forests, road, path and peasants, near Hagenau, Germany. 



some newspapers and read the alarming accounts of the condi- 

 tions at Fire Island, N. Y., and on some of the steamers that 

 had recently arrived in the JNew York harbor; also of the meas- 

 ures taken to prevent the spread of cholera in Europe, I real- 

 ized the necessity of discontinuing active operations, and that 

 if I was to get away from Germany before winter, I must pro- 

 ceed without delay into a country which was free from the 

 disease. 



LETTER FROM DIRECTOR MYERS. 



MORGANTOWN, W. V~A. 



August 27th, 1892. 

 DEAR SIR: 



"Since you left here, it is evident that you have run into a country at 

 least more or less surrounded by cholera, and at present writing, cholera 

 is announced at most of the German seaport towns from which the prom- 

 inent steamship lines sail for this country. The same is true of France, 

 and will doubtless be true in a few days of England. The effect of this 

 will be that everything and everybody coming into New York will be 

 thoroughly funigated and subjected to very rigid inspection until after the 



