1892.
Oct. 7
Concord, Massachusetts.
Mass.
Concord.- A sunny day but very hazy; warm with
strong S. to S.W. wind.
[margin]Fairhaven[/margin]
  Up river in "Stella Maris" canoe starting
about 10 A.M. and getting back at 5 P.M.
Sailed about half the way up (from Clamshell
to Fairhaven) and practically the entire distance
back. Lunched on Martha's Point at noon.
After this I spent upwards of two hours
exploring the country back of Lee's Cliffs. It
proved to be largely open pastures with
occasional small patches of pitch pine woods
and many fine scattered trees – hickories
oaks & ashes – growing along walls. Immediately
behind the cliffs a pine woods was cut
off some two or three years ago & the land
is growing up to sprouts or rather seedling
trees among which are many hickories. Some
of the old pines were left standing, the finer
trees, apparently, selected & left to become
"timber" pines. This "wood lot" covers about
twenty acres. There are a good many barberry
bushes all over the hill and witch hazel
(in bloom to-day) in places. Two fine large
clumbs of bayberry (Myrica) in the pasture
near Martha's point. I did not see a
chestnut tree anywhere on the hill.
[margin]Lee's Cliffs &
the country
behind them[/margin]
[margin]Bayberry[/margin]
  Returning to the river I set sail again
and ran across Fairhaven which was quite
rough, the canoe dancing over the waves.
Landed at Staples camp and climbed the