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thistle & Verbena hastata. It having not quit 



ceased raining, besides my not feeling very well, 

 after getting so very wett yesterday I was obliged 

 to keep the house & rest myself; Killington 

 peak which is said to be the highest part of Vev 

 niont, is in sight of the town & makes a respec- 

 table figur. I wrote a letter to Dr B as I am 

 destitute of cloathes & the weather beginning to 

 get very raw & cold I will not be able to stay 

 long here unless I get means of buying cloathes 

 fitt for the season. 



10. It clearing oft" very tine but the air very 

 cold ; a very bad cold makes me afraid of having 

 a relapse of Influenza, I felt so ill. that I kept 

 the house most all day. 



11. Feeling somewhat better, I dryed how a 

 good exercise on the mountains might agrea 

 with me ; I set out after breakfast, the foot of 

 the mountains beginns about 2, m. from the 

 town. In a Hemlock swamp I found the Cypri- 

 pedium canadense or spectabile, Orchis bifolia.? 

 Nephrodiuni Dryopteris, Vaccinum hispidulum. 

 This plant had beautifull white berries like wax 

 work. I dont know whether this plant allways 

 bears white berries or not as I am but little ac- 

 quainted with it. Most all the plants & shrubs 

 mentioned on Pokono mountain & the beach- 

 woods grow here. In ascending the mountain I 

 found Epilobium angustifol. in flower & seed — 

 Aster surculosus which x observed last season 

 on Salt Pond mountain grows in plenty here. 

 Aster flexuosus&c. & several species of Solidago. 



