Second day - Acent [ascent] of Wachusett -
Drive to Rindge etc.
1875.
June 17 [June 17, 1875] Cloudless but very smoky & somewhat warm
in forenoon. Started up the mountain
immediately after breakfast. The distance
to the summit is 3/4 of a mile but we
occupied nearly an hour in getting over 
it, stopping often by the way to listen
to some bird or examine the ferns
of which very many beautiful and varied
forms abounded. The entire upper half
of the mountain is covered with a 
dense 2nd growth of oak, walnut birch
and maple, their comparative abundance
ranking nearly in the order in which
they are named. Near the summit
the rather stunted growth of the first 
constitutes almost exclusively the arbores-
cent vegetation and here I was much
pleased in detecting the first typical
forms [delete]peculiar[/delete] of the Canadian flora 
in the bunch berry, (in full blossom)
abundant; and the spruce, of which
about 40 stunted examples were noticed.
Hopping about the door of the "Tip top"
house were two or three Juncos and I
heard the notes of several other males
in the neighborhood. Here we also saw
a beautiful laurel in full bloom and
abundance of the moose wood so
common in Me [Maine]. Of birds all over the
mountain & common were T. pallasii [Turdus pallasii],
Pipilo eryth. [Pipilo erythropthalmus] Har. rufus [Harporhynchus rufus], My. crintitus [Myiarchus crinitus] (dozens),
Dend. virens [Dendroica virents] and Hel. ruficapilla [Helminthophila ruficapilla], Pyranga
rubra excessively abundant up to within
from 500 ft. of the summit. Cy. cyanea [Cyanospiza cyanea]
do. [exceesively abundant] still lower down, a very few Contopus virn [Contopus virens]