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position acted similarly to a prism and broke up the light in
its several colors.  The spiders had peculiar abdomens, which looked
as if they had been built up by several secretions, each secretion
extending a little beyond the next lower.  Near Dickeyville we found
Symphytum officinale and Echinospermum Virginianum. [begin insert note at top of page] Close to the spring we found Mimulus ringens and Veronica
Virginica. [end insert note]  Reaching
the mill we peeped in and watched the boys tending the large
machines, called "mules", which wind bobbins.  We were told to
go to the door, here the foreman asked us to step in and look at
the looms.  We were very much interested in what we saw and
would have been glad to wait for the manager to get permission
to go through the entire mill but concluded to put it off to
some other time <s>when we h</s>.  We found out that the former
owner of the mills was a Mr. Wethered, so after [for] him the village
was called Wetheredville, but now that Mr. Dickey owns
the place, he has had the place called Dickeyville.  Beyond
the dam we found several specimens of Sabhatia angularis [Sabatia angularis]
later we met a <s>l</s> man with a bunch of at least 50 specimens;
such wholesale tearing up of plants readily accounts
for their gradual diminution.  Hypoxis erecta was again found
in flower.  We reached the park about noon, and here I ate
        