

BULLETIN 



1 1ST S T I T TJ T IE . 



VOL. 15. SALEM : OCT., Nov., DEC., 1883. Nos. 10-12. 



FIELD DAY AT DODGE'S MILL, ROWLEY, FRIDAY, JUNE 



29, 1883. 



THE party from Salem went to Ipswich in the morning 

 express train, and by carriages to the place of meeting, 

 some five or six miles distant. At Ipswich, a passing 

 call was made at the Manning High School, where there 

 is a fine mineral ogical collection, also specimens repre- 

 senting other departments of natural history. The mill 

 is about three miles from Rowley village in the direction 

 of Georgetown and near to the limits of Byfield. It is 

 upon the Dummer stream or brook, and it is owned by 

 Mr. Ignatius Dodge ; in whose imnediate family it has 

 been since 1772, and perhaps from an earlier date. 



Members and friends assembled soon from Georgetown, 



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Boxford, Ipswich, Rowley and Groveland. Tables were 

 prepared on a sequestered little island formed by the run- 

 ning brook. Some of the party under the guidance of 

 Mr. Sears went on a botanizing excursion in the neighbor- 

 hood ; others drove a couple of miles to a hill on which 

 there are vestiges of supposed Indian earthworks. 



This hill, known as Hobson's Hill, is owned by Joshua 

 N. Foss. It stands out alone and commands a good view 



ESSEX INST. BULLETIN, VOL. XV. 9* (HI) 



