Rhytidiiim rni!,osiini (L.) Kiiull)., brow of the cliffs, the yellow' 

 green loose mats \er\- haiulsonie; and Thiiidium delicatulum 

 (L.) Mitt. 



Adiantiim pedatum L.; Aspleniiim Trichomanes L.; Camp- 

 tosorns rhizophyUus (L.) Link, not rare at the base of Mine Lot 

 and in Glen Doon; Dryopteris intermedia (Muhl.) A. Gray; 

 and Polystichum acrostichoides (Mx.) Schott., only found near 

 the lowlands in clayey soil and entirely disappearing a short 

 distance up the glens. I was not aware before of its avoidance 

 of calcareous soils. 



March 2j, igoj. In the afternoon to the Indian Ladder 

 country, finding the roads quite dry and dusty. Many robins, 

 a blue jay and other birds. Where the road begins the steep 

 ascent of the hill, we left it for a rough climb around the hillside 

 through the woods to the stream from Hailes's Cavern. Ever- 

 green ferns, principally Dryopteris marginalis (L.) A. Gray and 

 its var. elegans (J. Robinson) Carhart. The walking was not 

 always sure, on account of the frozen soil beneath' the leaf mould. 

 The stream was full banked and very musical and might be called 

 a mountain cascade, as the drop from the cavern's mouth is 

 very abrupt and over a rocky bed. The cavern's mouth to-day 

 was two thirds filled with water. Rather than to descend 

 the steep mountain side, we stamped several steps up through 

 a bank of almost perpendicular snow to the path above, 

 and were obliged to do the same thing through Helmus Crack. 

 We could see Mt. Equinox and Bear Mountain in Vermont, 50 

 miles to the northeast, from the brow of the cliffs. 



Both Small and Mine Lot waterfalls fall into ice cones. The 

 cone of the former fall reached nearly to the top of the clifif, 

 and of the latter part way, but was of more gigantic proportions. 

 Huge icicles, 25 to 30 feet long, hang from projecting rocks. 

 These ice cones and banks of snow completely obstructed the 

 path along the base of the cliffs. On East ClifT we visited the 

 new cottage, on the brow above Fallen Rocks, enclosed and 

 nearing completion. A splendid site, for here the high water 

 stream falls about 125 feet to the rocks below, a magnificent 

 waterfall of ethereal whiteness — the Bridal Veil of this picturesque 

 region. 



