1910
July 10
(No 2)
[July 10, 1910]

green in contrast with the generally brownish gray
coloring of the nearly leafless woods. On my own
land the woods on the Blakemore ridge, on the
whole of Ball's Hill except close about the cabins
and at the edge of the river, on Davis Hill,
on the slopes behind Bensen's, at the rear of
Birch Island and along the road that leads
from the school house to Bensen's, were practically
and indeed almost completely naked - even more
so than in winter for very many of the pine foliage
had not escaped. The five old white pines on Davis
Hill have been seriously injured, I fear,
although only a few of them have been completely
stripped & even these may recover as has been the
case with a number which were denuded at the
farm last year. The swamps have suffered very