
          479.

more and we came to the end, right at the road we generally
take to Marley.  This new cut runs almost parallel with the 
railroad and is never a great distance from it.  We now walkd along
the road to the railroad.  Here we found that the brush on the cleared area was still burning.  We had now but a short distance to go to G., off in the distance
we saw another mass of smoke caused by burning brush.  In G. we met
Mr. K. [Kuethe]; we learned from him that the cleared cut we had passed
through was not to be a road but was intended for a rifle range
for the militia.  We found it too late to go to the pond so kept
on the main road.  Near Furnace Br. I found a cocoon of Altica Promethian[Promethean], on the
same plant (sassafras) I found a leaf-like woven web; it seemed that was 
necessary to make a cocoon out of it was a leaf and the bringing together of the
edge.  Before we reached the cemeteries the sun had set.  The moon now
gradually became brighter & brighter and before long illuminated our path distinctly.
The evening was beautiful, the sky so clear, not a cloud to be seen.
Mars now near opposition shines brilliantly  in the Lion.  We reached Brooklyn
at 7.15 P.M. waited for a car & reached B. about 7.45 P.M.

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March 9, 1901.  During the past week, on Wednesday, we had our
coldest weather of the season, the thermometer falling to 12.8º F.
To-day we had planned a trip along the River Rd., intending to take
        