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was the finding of a little tree with fruit of a very elliptical
shape,  this tree alone giving us fully 4 qts. of fruit.  They were
quite frozen and falling to the ground received not the slightest
injury.  In none of these was the slightest astringency noticed.
We now entered the path down the ravine & again reached
the river road.  It was after 4 P.M. so we decided to go to
the spring in our ravine and prepare supper.  It soon became
very dark and the lamp I had brought along came in very handy.
It took us quite a while to prepare supper and sometime to
eat it, but we were in not great hurry for we intended to
stay late enough to watch the eclipse. About 6:30 P.M. we
were suddenly surprised at the sound as of footsteps.  They,
however, soon ceased; not long after we noticed a little
fire, nearly opposite to us.  Towards 7 o'clock we broke up camp,
before starting home we thought we would visit the little fire to
see who could be so foolish as to light a fire at that time of day.
Reaching the fire we made the acquaintance of quite a rough looking customer,
a patriot on his way to Ohio to the soldier's hme;  he had been
living in Balto., for over 5 yrs. with his daughter, she dying, he was without
        