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the rocks and it is certainly a fat man's misery. About an 

 eighth of a mile beyond the Crack is Sutphen's Cave or Hailes's 

 Cavern; "23-^ miles, 1885, explored by T. C. Hailes, E. C. 

 Armstrong and F. H. Maguire," according to the legend on the 

 rock above the entrance. A certain fellow by the name of Dan 

 Lynch states the distance to be 10 miles in red paint, and he 

 probably thought it was, if he went far. We only went a few 

 steps beyond the low entrance, over a pile of loose rocks, but one 

 has to bend almost double and it is wet, cold and clayey. It 

 is but an old stream bed, and a great abundance of water flows 

 out in the spring of the year and down to the valley below over 

 the immense boulders, which have fallen from the cliffs 105 feet 

 above. The cliff is curiously fissured and there are three im- 

 mense square openings — "Proscenium Arches" — in the face of 

 the cliff, extending back of the original cliff. The openings are 

 like huge doors, the smaller opening being inmost and contains 

 the mouth of the cavern. The well-beaten trail ends apparently 

 a short distance beyond the cave; however, it probably con- 

 tinues on to near Altamont. 



The site of the old lime kiln at the top of the cliff near Small 

 Fall was discovered. 



The following plants were observed or collected: Daedalea 

 confragosa (Bolt.) Pers. on yellow birch logs and beech limbs. 



Pannaria lanuginosa (Ach.) Koerb. 



Amhlystegiuni variiim (Hedw.) Lindb.; Brachythecium rivii- 

 lare B. & S. and Eurhynchium ruscijorme (Neck.) Milde. 



Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A. Gray, a form with pinnae scarcely 

 dentate; and Polypodium vulgare L. 



Vitis bicolor LeConte with sweet fruit; and Symphoricarpos 

 pauciflortis (Robbins) Britton in fruit. 



October 27, igo6. To Indian Ladder on the noon train. I 

 followed the creek up from the wagon road, up the rugged ravine 

 of Mine Lot, with many a scramble over fallen logs and around 

 immense boulders. The conspicuous bare spot on the east 

 bank, at the lower end of the gulf, is composed of black crum- 

 bling shaly rock mixed with sand strata. Part way up the glen, 

 a fine view of the silvery thread of the waterfall, through the 



