1893
June 26
Return from Conn. to Concord

  Morning cloudy & cool.

  We left Andover at 10:10 this morning and
returned to Boston on the N.[?] & N.E. Railroad.
From the cars we noticed that the country changed
but little until after passing [?] when we
entered a very hilly region largely under cultivation,
with, however, extensive woods of white pines & various
deciduous trees. The last butternuts were seen on or very
near the Massachusetts line and the shell bark hickories
seemed to disappear at about the same point.
Mountain laurel grew abundantly in swamps near
Po[?][?]fret but was not seen elsewhere. The country
about Po[?][?]fret was for the most part open and
exceedingly hilly but not well suited for any except
pasture & field loving birds.

  Near Franklin we passed a pond studded with [?] 
& dead [?] on one of which a White-bellied Swallow was
perched.