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Blackberries still very plenty, and sweet ; they have not brought 
any to the village lately, people seem tired of them. Found also 
a few red raspberries, whortleberries, and the acid rose-berry. 
This is a land of berries ; a large portion of our trees and plants 
yield their seed in this form. Among such are the several wild 
cherries, and plums, the amelanchiers and dog-woods, the mountain 
ash, the sumachs, and the thorns ; all the large bramble tribe, 
with their pleasant fruits, roses, raspberries, the blackberry, and 
the gooseberry ; the numerous whortleberries, and bilberries, vi- 
burnums, and honeysuckles, spikenards, and cohoshes ; pokeweed, 
the trilliums, the convallarias, and the low cornel, clintonia, and 
medeola ; the strawberry, the partridge plant, and squaw-vine, &c., 
(fee. These are all common, and very beautiful while in season. 
Without going at all out of our way this morning, we gathered a 
very handsome bunch of berries, some of a dark purple, others 
light, waxy green, these olive, those white, this scarlet, that ruby 
color, and others crimson, and pale blue. The berry of the round- 
leaved dog- wood is of a very delicate blue. 
The snowberry, so very common in our gardens, is a native 
of this State, but I have never heard of its being found in this 
county. 
The birds were feasting upon all these berries at the Cliffs ; saw 
quite a gathering of them in a sumach grove, robins, blue-birds, 
sparrows, goldfinches, cat-birds, wild pigeons, and woodpeckers ; 
there were several others also perched so high that it was not easy 
to decide what they were. The little creatures were all very ac- 
tive and cheerful, but quite songless ; a chirrup, or a wild call, 
now and then, were the only sounds heard among them. 
Saturday, 9th. — Pleasant morning in the woods. Much amused 
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