

Ransier: Hunting the Hart's Tongue 



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down over the ledge, forming Inglis Falls. A mill is 

 located on the brink above and the water drops by easy 



stages from ledge to ledge. 



All of the roads leading out of the city are quite steep, 

 but one finds a strip of comparatively level country at 

 the top of a rise, and back of this level, another sharp 

 rise, half a mile or so away. The greater portion of the 

 land is under cultivation, while the rougher places are 



wooded. 



Fig. 2. Inglis Falls in flood. 



My first expedition was to Inglis Falls and, finding the 

 road had a couple of turns in it, about half way there, I 

 tried cutting across fields, to the west, where the woods 

 came down to the base of the hill, intending to follow it 

 till it brought me to the Falls. Great was my delight 

 to find a few small hart's tongue ferns before I had gone 

 five rods into the woods. A long, hard tramp along the 



