Dear Deane'— 
Drbana 
16 
April, 1920 
/La t'-'t, 
G'fU* * f 
I was glad to get your last letter with its news of Coos C 0 nnty plants, 
particularly Hlf. Balii. 1 fear also that I have not yet answered your letter of 
28 March, in which you say that you have from very near the Shele 
burns line.It would be a good plan to have a systematic search for it on shingly 
islands and bars along the riber down toward the 3ile@d line in the hopes of §$ 
picking it up.It seems as though it must get into N.I. a t that point.I am more 
desirous of bringing it into our range than almost any «f the things that come 
so near but don't quite reach us,though there are not so very many of such that 
are really to be expected. ,(1 or example, such things as in Echo Lake 
and JbiS£ at Lisbon and vicinity probably depend upon local conditi¬ 
ons that we can prob ably not expect to reproduce. Sat ought to find as • 
good a welcome in Shelburne as in Gilead*! have the feeling that the mountains 
about Gilead perhaps offer some return to explorers of a botanical sort.I found 
last summer that a brief ascent which I made of fumble Pown Dick: truned up a 
-ool many things that I was not quite expecting to see.^ernsld once told me that 
according to his recollection one(or some)of the mountains about Bethel has a 
limestone cap on it. ^e could not remember whc-ih it was and I have never been abl 
to find any statement about it. If you can in any way discover which it is I shou.1 
be glad to know in order that I may investigate it. ^ h s only onssl have been on 
in that vicinity are Caribou (or C a laboo) and Locke Mtn.I’he former# is a good peak 
in character somewhat similar to the Baldfaoes at Chatham,with Pssafljflfcis,etc., 
the latter is a small mountain of somewhat the nature of some of the foothills 
at helb ur±ic, or what I suppose that they are like, ^ow there are much higher 
peaks that lie in back,between the ^nlrosco-gin and Sunday River valleys,and it 
may be some one of these which Eernald had in mind.If you can get any light from 
botanical or geological t ■ , 
“ 1 oes 1 *«« that S oa »oali reflect it in this direc- 
