Cambridge, Mass.
1901.
June 26.
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trees. Altogether it was as peaceful and pastoral a bit of
landscape as one often finds within the limits of a populous
city. At the foot of the southern slope the course of a 
brook, which used to flow into the swamp but which is now
perfectly dry, is marked by a winding channel nearly two feet
in depth. Along its banks grow oaks (chiefly Q. bicolor),
elms, red maples, willows, both species of hornbeams, gray
birches, rum cherries and a few Austrian pines and Norway
spruces which were evidently planted there, all the other
trees being apparently indigenous to the place. Some of the
oaks and maples are of the largest size. The ground beneath
these trees is free from undergrowth and in most places
carpetted with green turf.
  At the base of the western slope lie all that are left
untouched of Norton's Woods - a mere fragment covering, at
the most, barely two acres yet in many respects a perfectly
primitive bit of wilderness. The trees are chiefly white
pines, probably of considerable age but neither very large
nor flourishing, their foliage, like that of most of our
Cambridge pines, being scanty and rusty-looking. Among them are
a number of oaks, white, swamp white, scarlet and black, all
belonging to the forest-grown type (i. e. with long trunks
branching high above the earth) and not a few being of really
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