
          300.

*In the swamp found a little terrapin, one with dots on
its back. It was about the size of a silver dollar.

was lying an Indian ax.  This was the first time I
have seen one outside of a museum or a collection
of curios.  The ax was in perfect condition and I don't 
think I ever saw a prettier one.  It gave me great
amount of pleasure, seeing it, and I called Mr. W's attention
to it.  The colored man seeing that I had noticed it
offered to sell it to me; but we were loaded down
already and could not think of burdening ourselves more.
He told us he had found it in a brook.  We now
learned our way to the swamp, which we soon reached.

The Sarracenia was in full bloom, at least 50 of the
beautiful flowers were counted.  On the edge of the
swamp, hidden in the branches of a low tree, about
8 feet from the ground we saw our second nest.  A
cat-bird mear by was watching us intently, so concluded
it was its nest.  In the nest we found 4
pretty eggs of a blue color, to all appearance similar
to those seen in the morning.  After examining the
swamp we walked up to the cemetery.*  On the way
up we found a Cypripedium acaule still in flower.
        