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walked up the tracks and entered the ravine.  Close to the run
which enters the brook below the cascades at the Candle Camp,
we built our camp fire.  We soon had a fine little fire going,
whose heat felt most grateful.  We enjoyed our dinner
very much, for we were very hungry.  At no time have we met
so many people in the ravine as to-day, 6 hunters in two
different parties passed us on their way to Catonsville.  Some
time after four o'clock we broke up camp and started for the
cars.  We took the route taken in early spring, <s>by way of</s> 
which led us to the pretty lilies, only this time we were
reversing that trip.  We reached the cars about 6 p.m.
and in another hour we were home.

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Nov. 17, 1900.   A trip alone.  To Glenburnie, Saw Mill Pond.  Left
home about 8:45 A.M., reached Furnace Br. at 10:15 A.M.  I was rather
anxious to find Aspidium cristata so entered the swampy ground to the 
right immediately after crossing the bridge, I, however, failed to find
it.  Nevertheless the trip was not wasted, first of all I found two
finely fruited mosses and then in a nicely protected nook I <s>found</s> saw quite
a number of well developed buds of the Skunk-cabbage peeping out of the
ground.  I dug one up, removing the outer leaf, a well-developed spathe
        