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and a pan of beans. Sleep was rather intermittent 
this first night out, for we were not yet in the land of 
hemlock or even pine boughs for beds. Securing an 
early start the next morning we hurried along and slowly 
began to ascend, and with the ascent the hills became 
“more and more covered with trees. First only an oc- 
ig -easional oak, then larger and larger groups of them 
_ together with buckeye bushes. Before noon we had 
eae thru a few groves of jack pines, and we saw ahead 
of the ¢ 
the “tea fern,” Pellaea ornithopus, and 
und a cool — a wee the water was: 
The plants of this ue 
gold-back were seen along the 
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