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the horizon from any one point. Thus while you are 

 getting Ossipee and the Belknaps you are losing the 

 Uncanoonucs. 



We crossed the top of the hill, stirring up a flock 

 of robins and two or three vesper sparrows. On 

 reaching the signal station in the Farnum pasture 

 (the highest part of the hill, 783 feet), marked by a 

 triangle cut in the rock, we saw Turtle Pond in Potter- 

 town, as blue as the bluebird's back, and we caught 

 occasional gleams of the Merrimack. On top of the 

 hill we added two varieties of rose haws to our collec- 

 tion, but we did not happen to see any of the scarlet 

 fruit of the thorn bush, though it grows on this hill, 

 nor any of the coral-red berries of the black alder. 



We came down by the Farnum road, past the dark 

 tarn which lies at the foot of an abandoned quarry. 

 "The glad shout of color" from the autumn foliage 

 called forth continuous shouts of appreciation from 

 our party. The oaks in particular were magnificent 

 masses of russet and bronze and metallic red. The 

 writer has been surprised to see how many birds feed 

 upon acorns. Last week in Rollins Park, while watch- 

 ing a flock of rusty blackbirds in the tree tops, we no- 

 ticed a continuous shower falling upon and around us. 

 Upon investigation we discovered that we were being 



