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pier and back into the old dock.  When this is accomplished
she is ready to start on her trip homeward.  We arrived home
about a quarter of 11 0'clock.

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Aug. 15. 1900.  To Curtiss[Curtis] Bay.  Left home about 8 A.M.
In the swampy ground on the west side of the car tracks,
near the terminus Kosteletzkia [Kosteletzkya] was in flower.  The flowers
are of a beautiful shade of pink - very similar to the color
of the swamp rose.  Seldom have I found more than
two or three of these pretty plants in flower, but to-day
hundreds of flowers were seen, so many in fact that when I
saw them first, while passing in the car, I thought it was
some belated rose in flower.  Iva frutescens was also
found close at hand.  From the swampy place I walked
to the shore, which I kept close to, till I reached the
refinery.  In the rear of the refinery I found helianthus rigidus.
After putting a number of specimens in press, I walked down 
to the new coal pier that the B. & O. <s>are</s>is building.  This
immense pier was started in Jan. and when completed will
allow 6 vessels to be loaded at one time.  The wood-work
in now about finished -- the approaches and the deepening of
        