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swollen - the flood rushing over its plain, carrying
many of the plants with it.  We wished also to see
if Aplectrum were in flower, and soon found a number
of the plants in full bloom.  To-day, no doubt on
account of the rain, seemed to be the turtle's visiting day,
four of them were seen.  How beautiful they look with
their wet backs, now cleanly scoured by the rain.

Two of them had their backs marked exceptionally
beautiful; the one being almost entirely yellow with a
few dark marks,  the other having marks which were
exact counterparts of its paws.  We soon reached
the highland where the yellow cypripedium was
growing.  The spot was marked by tying a red piece of
cloth to a tree.  How beautiful the brook looked
as we crossed the highland, never before had we observed
it to look so grand from this point.  The water
many feet below us simply rushed past us.  Crossing the highland we
stopped at the patch of Aplectrum marked on a former 
occasion, 5 of the plants were in flower, some of those
that had bloomed <s>the</s> last year were now in flower.
        