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I then stopped to watch it, but the snake, no doubt, thinking
itself unobserved, kept perfectly still.[note at top of page: Frog eggs were found in a little shallow pond.
Scads of Luwigia alternifolia were collected.]

I think it was nearly one o'clock when I reached home.  After
looking over my mail and putting away the specimens collected
I started my afternoon trip.  I reached the falls at 
2 o'clock.  I started again along <s>at</s> the race at the western terminus
of Balto. St.  I wished to repeat the trip of yesterday afternoon
to see if I had possibly overlooked Ostrya.  But the results were
again the same, I did not find it.  Perhaps the stream has
washed it away.  When near the dam I met Mr. H. one of
school teachers.  He accompanied me the rest of my trip.  We
crossed the falls just below the dam and continued our trip along
the west bank.  Although Mr. H[obbs] has a deformed limb <s>he</s> and
is obliged to use a cane, he manages to climb the rocks and over
the hills pretty well.  This afternoon, I collected branches [twigs]
of beech, Spice Bush, Elm, Alder, Hazel, and Leather-wood.
In one of the ponds we passed I found plenty of frog eggs.  They
were so far developed that life was already very apparent.
I took a small portion of one of the egg masses.  We kept
along the falls up to Windsor Mills Rd.  Here we climbed the

        