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mats of Anomodon attenuatus (Schreb.) Hueben, and one sees 

 along the cliffs the old-fashioned motherwort and catnip. From 

 the head of this amphitheater to the Indian Ladder road, there 

 is a very good trail at the base of the cliffs, and the character 

 of the cliffs of the western exposure here, as along the East Cliff, 

 is more fossiliferous. More hemlock, Tsuga canadensis (L.) 

 Carr., abound, surrounded by groves of canoe birch. Pellaea 

 atropurpurea (L.) Link occurs here, as along the western exposure 

 of East Cliff. There is a peculiar rock column, a dozen feet high, 

 along the trail, in close proximity with the cliff, and with space 

 enough for a person to pass between the column and the cliff. 

 One comes out at Tory House and the genuine wildness of the 

 path is lost. 



Along the trail in the west amphitheater a dead robin (perhaps 

 shot), and within a short distance a dead cottontail. Can bunny 

 have met his fate, during the night or when pressed or pursued, 

 leaping from the cliffs? I could find no signs of it having been 

 shot. Partridges, blue jays, chickadees, crows, a red-headed 

 woodpecker, red squirrels, flies and a cricket singing his parting 

 song. Down in the valley a hound baying. 



"Hark! hear the sound of the baying hound! 



Along the round of the mountain; 

 The echo calls, then it falls and falls 



Like the water of a fountain. 

 Oh, mournfully sad and strange and deep 

 The voice of the hound along the steep." 



There was no water in Little Fall and but a small amount in 

 Mine Lot, although ice was beginning to form at the base of the 

 fall, noticeable from the valley. But few leaves left on the trees, 

 dried, browned and bronzed. Near the site of the wooden ladder 

 beyond Mine Lot, the hemlocks form a V into a fine growth of 

 canoe birch. Can the formations and distribution of the birch 

 and hemlock be due to soil conditions? 



The following plants were seen or collected: Daldinia con- 

 centrica (Bolt.) Ces. & DeNot. on old logs; Fames applanatus 

 (Pers.) Wallr. on living maple; Hymenochaete tahacina (Sow.) 

 Lev. on hickory and Ostrya virginiana; Julella monosperma (Pk.) 

 Sacc. on a rotten log in west amphitheater with Lophocolea hetero- 



