1894
June 16
Mt. Moosilauke, N.H.
Forenoon overcast & sultry, the clouds gradually burning away
& the afternoon clear and hot.
  I awoke at day break and heard a Great-crested Fly-
catcher, a Traill's Flycatcher, a Perver[?], White-throats, Hermits etc.
singing near the house. Toads had been trilling (the April trill,
not the summer squawk) and a few Pickering's Hylas[?]s piping through
the night.

  We breakfasted at 6.30 and started up the mountain a
little after seven. It is five miles to the top but the drive
takes nearly three hours for the grades are exceedingly steep
in many places and the road is far from good. It
winds through a superb forest (the finest that I have
ever seen in New England) for the first two miles, [delete]throw[/delete]
for the next two through lower growths which became st[?[ed
as the fourth mile post is reached. The last mile is
chiefly along the crest of a ridge which ascends rather
gradually to the highest point where a small hotel and
stable are situated. This crest is for the most part ban[?]
of trees and carpeted with beds of hedges, a[?] g[?]
and mountain cranberry but the [?] [delete]spires[?] and[/delete]
balsams, intermixed with a few yellow birches & mountain ash
trees, begin within a few rods, at most, of the crest
and flow down the mountain slopes on every side the
trees becoming gradually taller and more symmetrical [delete]as
they descend[/delete] until, [delete]they[/delete] at an elevation of approximately
3000 ft., they attain proportions mainly or quite equal to
those of their various kinds still course[?] down. Those nearest
the summit are scarce fir fit high on the coverage and
their tops are so matted and spreading that in many
places they are practically impenetrable but only 50 to
