1893    
Sept. 20.                                            
Boston to Portland Maine.
  Clear and cool N.W. wind
I missed the early (7.30 A.M.) train for Bethel and spent the
forenoon sitting on the deck of the steamer reading. Also took
a drive to the reservoir which burst last spring.
  Started for Bethel at 1.30 P.M. arriving at about 5 P.M.
Although the autumn coloring is not nearly at its height many                
of the maples have turned and the ferns are everywhere golden
of brown.
[margin]Autumn
foliage[/margin]
  The wind blew a gale during the latter part of the after
noon and I saw no birds. The mountains loomed up finely against
the evening sky but they had a cold and somewhat forbidding as-
pect.