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and an opportunity to gather flowers along its margin. This 

 was found to be the better route by the return party in tho 

 afternoon, who enjoyed the pleasant and sylvan character of 

 the road and refreshed their boquets with newly plucked 

 blossoms copiously afforded them. The more open and 

 sunny route, selected by error, was not however without its 

 charms, as the law of compensation is always found close at 

 hand in any emergency, when sought for or Avhen met by 

 a conciliating spirit. Berries and blossoms here and there 

 were to be seen, and green fields and distant woods only 

 seemed more verdant and cooler by constrast, for distance 

 lends enchantment to the view, we are told. To the right 

 lay stretched out in a beautiful blue sheet of water. Filling's 

 Pond, formed by the damming of an extensive meadow for 

 mill privileges, and where we were assured by two healthy 

 and sunburnt maidens, could be found the best blueberries 

 of the neighorhood. The particular specific name of this 

 delighful fruit we did not gather, (neither did we indeed the 

 fruit itself) for we question whether the first lessons in botany, 

 much less the manual of native plants had been made a text 

 book in the public school of the district. Some sort of 

 Vaccinium was doubtless intended by these ameteurs in car- 

 pology, but wether Yaccinium Pennsylvanicnni, Ctmadense, 

 cori/mbosum, who can tell ? All this would have mattered 

 little to them, provided they brought the requisite number 

 of cents per quart. One loves to know the names of whom 

 and of what he loves ; and we remember the gusto with 

 which we relished some famous blue-berries once upon an 

 occasion, when we were assured that they were the identical 

 species first described by an eminent naturalist of old re- 

 nown ! But all this was a long way oif, in the Notch of the 

 White Mountains, so perhaps the locality had something to 

 do with the enchantment. To return however from our 

 digression, we would recall our own pleasant Scenery and 

 roundings of our own tour to Lynnfield, enticed anon by 

 glimpses of rural and agricultural beauty, by the chirping 



