Lake Umbagog.
Wea [Weather] MON. AUG 10, 1908 [Monday, August 10, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
  Brilliantly clear and just pleasantly warm
with light,steady N.W. [northwest] wind. 
  Spent day up the lake with Alva in his 
motor boat. Landed first at Glaspy Cove where
I revisited and remeasured the big canoe birch which
is now nearly dead.  Landed next at Pine Point -
Found my camp and camping ground nearly
unchanged and unmoved. After lunching there
walked to Spelman's Point measuring all the
big trees we could find. Deer have thinned the 
undergrowth and eaten all the yew.  Came down 
lake in late P.M.. Never have I seen it more
beautiful. Landed at Gibbs place to take Miss 
West home. Visited the [?] graveyard there. 

Wea [Weather]TUESDAY 11 [Tueday, August 11, 1908] Ther. [Thermometer]
 Cloudy & sultry. Heavy thunder
storm in P.M. accompanied by a 
deluge of rain & hailstones as big
as small cherries. 
  Spent most of day in room 
copying and expanding field notes 
on birds & big trees etc. Started 
out in [?] canoe after dinner 
but the threatening aspect of the 
sky drove me back before the storm 
began. No birds heard singing. Some
Goldfinches roundabout. A few Barn
& Eave swallows about. 
[margin] Mr. and Mrs.Brown of Belmont here. [/margin] 
Lake Umbagog.
Wea. [Weather] WED.AUG.12, 1908 [Wednesday, August 12, 1908] Therm. [Thermometer]
  Sunny, warm, sultry.
  Spent most of the day writing in my
canoe on the north side of B Point 
paddling on shortly after breakfast, 
returning for dinner, going across again
at 2 P.M.  It was serene and restful there 
under the shade of big trees and hedges. 
In forenoon a Red-Shouldered Hawk, screaming
loudly, crossed the cove near me. In afternoon
I saw a Broad-wing [Broad-winged Hawk] perched on a stub & 
3. Gr. Blue Herons [Great Blue Herons] flying about. Large flight
of Eave swallows at sunset.  Canada W. [Canada Warbler] singing.
[margin]  Flock 12 Bronzed Grackles flew past Lake and low down, 
S. [south], 8 a.m. [/margin]
Wea.[Weather] THURSDAY 13 [Thursday, August 13, 1908] Therm. [Thermometer]
  Partly sunny with two heavy showers. 
  Very warm and exceedingly humid. 
  Paddled over to B point after breakfast 
& spent most of forenoon there.  Sailed 
back before a fresh breeze. Spent 
most of afternoon in the house. 
  It rained heavily much of the time. 
There are no mosquitoes, black flies nor
midges here now, even in the woods. 
  The lake is two feet lower than last year.