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Lake Umbagog.
Trip down the Lake.
1897.
Sept. 23
  Overcast most of the day but with occasional brief
intervals of sunshine. Early morning calm followed by fresh
S.E. wind which lasted well into the night.
  The Spelmans left me last evening but the rest of the
party remains as before; ie I have Purdie, Jim, Will,
Charley & Gilbert.
[margin]The Spelmans
depart.[/margin]
  Purdie and I went down the Lake this morning taking
Jim & Will with the two large boats and the little
new sailing canoe which I used most of the day.
I sailed about a mile before a new breath of air
from the N.W. and then took to the paddle.
  Purdie & Will had gone on ahead but I overtook them
at Metalluc Island where Purdie had found a great
number of small seedlings of Pinus banksiana, some of
which Will had taken up for me. The old trees on
the island are all standing. We estimated the
largest to be over 40 ft. in height with a but diameter
of 12 to 15 inches. Later in the day Purdie & Will found
a great number of these pines [delete]growing[/delete] on the Tyler
place most of them growing near the shore - where
they actually found a grove of some extent - but a
good many scattered about in the opening 200 yards
or more from the Lake.
[margin]Metalluc Id[/margin]
[margin]Pinus
banksiana[/margin]
  We spent the entire day between the shallows and the upper
end of the Tyler Cove, working slowly along the shore
landing every now & then to take a photograph or to
look for plants. Birds were rather scarce. We saw
one Black Duck & [delete]about[/delete] a flock of about 15 Sheldrake
in State Line Cove & a few Flickers elsewhere.
[margin]Photography[/margin]
[margin]Black Duck
Gooseanders
Flicker[/margin]
I had a delightful sail all the way back to camp at evening