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We were very well pleased with Mrs. D. and her daughter.  They appeared
to be highly refined lady-like women.  Mrs. D. is now a
widow, her husband [Allen Dorsey] was sick 15 yrs, before his death.  This
of course was the cause of the house going to wreck.  The 
home is beautifully located.  The [drainage] is splendid.  The view
from the hillside ground.  In front of the house is a fine
Lombardy Poplar.  Mrs. D. thought is was called the Columbia
P.  After half an hours' pleasant chatting we bade the ladies
good-bye and took the path leading from the rear of the 
house into the woods.  Here we found it delightfully pleasant.
We had not gone very far when we met a young man 
driving a team.  We soon learned that he was Mrs D's son-in-law.
He told us that there were but two good rooms in the
entire house.  We found the woods so very pleasant that we
decided to eat our dinner in them.  So, although it
was just eleven o'clock we looked up a nice place, built
a fire and ate our dinner.  While in search for water we
found a nice patch of Pyrola rotundifolia.  It was close to
the large brook, and I marked a near by tree.  After dinner
we left the woods.  We found ourselves close to Patapsco
        