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now a little past 4 0'clock so decided to walk home.  Arrived
home about 5. P.M.

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Aug. 18. 1900.  A partly cloudy morning.  started from home
about 9 A.M. and took the car for Catonsville.  Reaching the
terminus I walked out Frederick R'd to Thistle Glen R'd which
I took to Ilchester.  Along Frederck R'd found in several places
Cassia [Marilandria].  I notice another marked difference between
Mentha viridis and M. piperita; the foliage of the former being
always of a light green whereas M. piperita has its foliage of a 
dark almost purplish green.  Sida spinosa was found in a
number of places.  At Thistle I peeped in through the windows
of the new building; here are installed more than a hundred
looms for weaving silk goods.  Reaching Ilchester, I followed the
River R'd; found to-day Impatiens pallida in bloom.  It seems
just to have come into flower.  Stopped to-day at the
Cascades to eat lunch.  It seems as if some<s>wh</s>one has 
discovered our spring which they tried to improve by rolling
several large stones around the brink of the basin.  I felt
very much refreshed after lunching, recrossed the river and
went through our ravine.  The trip through the ravine was

        