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Peterborough, New Hampshire.
1898.
July 5 to
Aug 15
  I came to Peterborough from Glendale on July 5th and
spent the remainder of the month and the first half of
August at "Ben Mere farm" going to Cambridge twice however,
for two or three days, in July. I had hoped to be in the
woods a great deal but an unfortunate return of my
chronic hip lameness prevented me from doing much walking
and my excursions were mainly confined to the fields and
woods near the house and those about the shore of
Cunningham Pond to which, by the aid of an old boat, I
had easy and frequent access. I also took a few drives but
none of great lengths. Walter Deane was with me from
July 18th to 25th and H. A. Purdie from July 30th to Aug. 3rd
and both covered a good deal of ground that lay beyond
my reach thereby adding materially to the information that
I have gained respecting bird fauna and the flora
of the Peterborough region. Mr. Dean has also given me
a number of notes on the birds which he has foun about
Joffrey (where he has been staying the greater part of the
summer) and I shall refer to some of these in what I
am about to write. Joffrey lies some five or six miles
west of here at a lower enlevation [elevation] than that of our house
but above that of Peterborough village.
  During out stay a "Ben Mere farm" the weather was for
the most part fine with, however, occasional rains which,
almost without exception, fell during the night. The temperature
has been uniformly comfortable and the air remarkably
dry and bracing although the reports that have come
to us from the low country tell of one of the hottest
(and the very most humid) summers that we have had
for many years.