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ascetosella, but not plenty — Dracaena borealis — 

 Helleborus viridis— Orchis fimbriata in full bloom 

 — Dalibarda violaeoides in fruit. — The woods 

 abount with Sugar Maple ; The valley is in some 

 places very narrow & the creek very winding 

 which obliged me to wate it several times to keep 

 the road — I heartyly expected to reach the house 

 this night, which had been recommended to me 

 to stay at, but I dit come to it before it got dark. 

 — I observed in a small run a species of Sium as 

 I suppose, without flowers whose leaves under 

 the water were very fine divided, & the upper 

 ones only pinnate ; I call it S. heterophyllum. 

 From a small tavern, which is kept here, it is 

 about 22. miles to the head of Cayuga, which 

 I intend to reach to morrow. — 



7. Having opportunity of going in company 

 of a wagon, who would carry my things, I set 

 out early this morning. The road leads through 

 a very romantick valley, the mountains some- 

 times very high. After following the course of 

 Cayuta cr : for 9. miles, we turned oft to the 

 right. The vegetation similar to what I men- 

 tioned yesterday, 8. miles this side of Cayuga 

 city or as it is called sometimes Ithaca we crossed 

 a place very beautifully situated calld Sapony 

 Hollow : this place has been once cleared & 

 probably settled by Indians, but it is now grown 

 up with small white pine very handsomely mixed 

 with Populus tremuloides & Magnolia acuminata. 

 The last is very scarce about here & the trees 

 here in this place & two or three others I seen 

 are of a creeply, small & old growth, nothing like 



