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We found enough wood for a good fire at Mine Lot Fall, where 

 we lunched and rested for two hours in the Red Paint Mine. 

 The ice cone here is not so large but is greater in diameter than 

 at Little Fall, and the hundreds of diamonds — "ice buttons" — 

 are very beautiful. The roughness of the ice gives one an 

 opportunity to approach the edge of the cone and look down the 

 ice-encrusted ravine. Further progress along the path was 

 blocked by ice, and we descended through the woods on the 

 ridge between the streams from the two waterfalls. 



Mosses, bright and green but frozen, and bittersweet berries. 

 Over the hemlocks, birches and maples of the ravine, to the north 

 of Meadowdale is a "flood lake" of the form of an interrogation 

 point. Red squirrels, blue jays and perhaps spring birds. Dur- 

 ing the day we visited the Tory House and Giant's Castle. From 

 the valley. Bridal Veil Fall shows an immense ice cone. 



The following plants: Hypoxylon fuscopurpureum (Schw.) 

 Berk, on rotten logs ; and Polyporus picipes Fr. 



Lecanora varia (Ehrh.) Ach. on branches. 



Orthotrichum speciosum Nees on willow trunks. 



May 8, 1909. Helderbergs for the afternoon. I reached the 

 cliffs a mile east of Bridal Veil, via the bog and low woods in the 

 valley, and easily climbed the brow of the escarpment up a 

 partial stream bed some distance from the main wagon road. 

 Between this stream bed and the Bridal Veil Fall, I discovered a 

 "high water" waterfall, which some distance back from the 

 brow of the cliff flows down a picturesque ravine of shale. Fine 

 views from the clifTs in spite of the far away haze. In the 

 vicinity of Fallen Rocks, two red-shouldered hawks circled the 

 air and uttered their shrill kee-you, kee-you. One of the birds 

 was much noisier than the other, and after tiring itself out would 

 alight in the top of a dead tree below the cliff. Very evidently 

 they have a nest in the top of a tree somewhere below the brow 

 of the cliff . Hermit thrushes and many other birds; and delayed 

 vegetation makes up for time lost. Descended late in the after- 

 noon by the short-cut trail and find it lies near the landslide of 

 the spring of 1908, but whether the trail has been changed since 

 the slide took place, I cannot say with certainty. 



