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Lake Umbagog.
Cambridge River Marshes.
1897.
Sept. 28
  Weather very like that of yesterday but colder and
with an even stronger wind. The seas on the open
Lake were exceptionally heavy and I doubt if any
small boat could have lived them. The steamer
made its usual trip but her life boat filled
and her fires were almost put out. The engineer
thinks that the waves in the North Bay were fully
eight feet in height. He saw a large flock (fully 75
birds) of "Butter-billed Coots" (Oidemia americana)
near Metalluc Island. They were shy and restless
flying about continuously.
[margin]Autumn
gale[/margin]
[margin]Big seas
running on
the Lake[/margin]
  I passed the greater part of the day in my
cabin but I had a short sail in the little canoe
in the morning and visited Jim at his shop
in the late afternoon. It was half-an-hour after
sunset when I paddled back towards the house boat.
[margin]Sailing in
the river[/margin]
  Three Wilson's Snipe rose from the river banks and
flew off westwards, scaiping loudly. Five Black
Ducks came from up the Cambridge and alighted
on the flooded meadows. A solitary Night Heron flew
about me in a great circle qualling at short
regular intervals; I do not remember ever noting
one at this precise part of the Lake before.
[margin]Snipe
Black Duck[/margin]
[margin]Night Heron[/margin]
  L[?] Sargent says that he heard a number
of Snipe last evening and numbers were heard
near the Outlet to-night as I afterwards
found.
[margin]Snipe[/margin]