August 12 , 189 6, Wednesday 
Fair and very warm. Got up about 4.45 or 5.00 A. M. and alter 
getting breakfast and taking down tent and packing for onward 
trip we drove team ( about 8.00 A. M. ) on the roau running 
west from Mr. Nutting's farm for perhaps two miles ( tp end of 
well traveled road). There the Fernalds and a Nutting boy, and 
I walked about a mile into the woods and collected some 
Rhododendron Maximum . We returned to Mr. Nutting's place and 
started north again at about 10.00 A. M. It was mostly up- 
grade to the hotel at Highland just before reacning which 
(by a half mile or so) we stopped for an hour or more at a 
watering tub for dinner. Collected some mosses along the 
branch of Michael Stream nearby. Soon after starting on again 
we had a fine view of the Bigelow Range. We reached the Ledge 
House about 5.00 P. M. or a little earlier and the Mount Big- 
elow Ho tel ( Parson's) about 5*30 P. M. We drove about a mile 
and a half beyond this and' camped in a field in the rear of 
Mr. W. 0. Wyman's house , getting to bed at 9.00 P. M. 
August 13, 1896, Thursday 
Fair and not quite so warm. Slept quite well last night and 
got up about 5.00 A. M. Straightening out things about camp, 
the Fernalds went collecting along the river and a little later 
Professor Strong followed them. I stayed about camp and fixed 
it up some. Had sweet potatoes, buckwheat cakes, etc. lor 
dinner. In P. M. I stayed about camp while the rest collected 
some along the river and intervale. 
August 14, 1896, Friday 
Did not sleep quite as well last night and it was quite cold 
towards morning. In middle of A. M. M. L. Fernald, W. G. 
Strong, and I started for a collecting* trip up on the mountain. 
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