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agreed that it was well worth all the trouble undertaken
to see them.  We now sat down to dinner and spent
an hour or two in pleasant conversation. After 3 P.M.,
however, we concluded to go slowly up to the terminus, for
Mr. P. had to be home by 6 P.M.  Reaching the terminus we
spent yet about ½ hr. together when Mr. P. and Mr. T. took the
car for home.  Mr. W. and I now walked up the track towards
the Ellicott City line reaching a fallen trunk we
stopped to eat supper.  While eating young Mr. Bukmeyer
passed along; Mr. W. called upon him to decide which was
correct I believe it to be him or I believe it to be he.
After telling us <s>what</s> which he thought was right and after
we had learned who he was, what he was doing, where
he had been and where he was going, he came up and offered
us some of his camphor and staid [stayed] with us till we
were ready to start home.  We started for home about 7 P.M.

52.

Sept. 9. 1899.  Along the B.&O. tracks to Lansdowne
then to Washington and Sulphur Spring Roads.  Found
Sporobolus vaginaeflorus in great quantity a short distance beyond Mt.
Winans.  In the little wood at the head of the pond
found Quercus palustris, in fruit, and Aster umbellatus,
        