52 THE NAUTILUS. 



On Welsh Bald, at an altitude of 5,000 feet, we first found the new 

 variety of Polygyra edwardsii, and from a little spring that oozed out 

 from near the top, we found Pisidium roperi Sterki. Sargent found 

 this in Minnesota and I had found it in a small pool near Joliet, hut 

 the shell is Still rare. 



We descended to Chambers' Creek one hot afternoon, where it was 

 only 1,500 above the sea. It was a tough slide and both of our 

 mountain friends were sick before starting. From there Sargent 

 made a side trip by rail to Hayesville, N. C, and I first found Poly. 

 monodon cincta. And then and afterwards they were mostly dead 

 and found around the hasswood and buckeye trees. After a few 

 <lays' rest, we crossed over to Tuskegee Creek, and in Ramp Cove, 

 on the Tuskeegee side of the Yellow Creek Mountains, we first found 

 Gastrodonta II r alkeri Pilsbry, a new species. It was in company with 

 signijicans. These mountains run up about 4,000 feet, with soil on 

 the slopes rich as a garden. 



Passing down Yellow Creek, between the Cheowah and Tellow 

 Creek Mountains, we loaded up with green corn, sweet potatoes and 

 other good things, as the valley is settled. Here we discovered that 

 Poly, christyi has a great fondness for the shrub called poison hem- 

 lock. The streams were swift and rocky. We found no clams and 

 very few univalves. 



At Cheowah river we were down to 1,500 feet again. Hangover 

 and Mount Hayo, in the Unaka range, 5,200 feet, overlook the ford, 

 and the trail we took to these peaks was up a dry pine ridge, steep 

 as the roof of a house, and for the first time in our trip, good drinking 

 water was a little scarce. It took us until 3 o'clock in the afternoon 

 to get up, and all were sore and some were cross. 



Every day brought new delights. One afternoon, on Bob Strat- 

 ton's Bald, 5,400 feet (there is another peak a few miles away called 

 John Stratton's Bald), near Hayo, we found over 200 G. lamellidens. 

 We found these in company with Helicodtscus lineatus, and Vitrea 

 carolinensis, by turning over slabs of stone that lay on top of the 

 ground, and there were sometimes a half a dozen under one stone. 

 The general rule is one lamellidens to a dozen or two rocks. The next 

 day, at Glen Cove, a couple of miles lower down the range, we found 

 130 Poly, chilltoweensis. Back on the Little Tennessee river again 

 at Talassee ford, we again found Gastro. walker/ at a point less than 

 1,000 feet above the sea — the lowest point in our trip. One of the 



