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in that direction, stopped a short time to examine the stones:
then proceeded again towards the railroad, examining the hazels.
The nuts are now ripe and the leaves of many of the plants
are turning a dull reddish color.  Parallel with the railroad
at this point is a clean-looking shell road.  We concluded
to try it, so crossing the little brook, we without much difficulty
reach it.  This road does not run directly into the
Sulphur Sp. Rd., so when we got to the terminus we crossed
the fields and thus reached it.  We now kept on the S.S. Rd.
A new house has been built on the site of the one burnt down
last spring.  We reached the old hotel about 10:30 A.M. took
lunch then  continued on our trip.  Although most of the trees
still retain the green color in their leaves, we find here and
there and in some places much more than in others many trees
with beautifully colored foliage. Most of the black gum and
dogwoods are beautifully colored red, the hickories yellow
and some of the maples yellow with <s>bands</s> a pretty margin
of red.  We tasted the fruit of the black gum and found
it intensely bitter.  Near the <s>Rolling Rd</s> Catonsville Av. we met two
colored children who told us it was 13 miles to Washington.
Here, too, we found several persimmon trees with quite a
        