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peculiar twining plants which I failed to identify.  They grew
around young trees or shrubs which were on an average about 8 ft.
high; <s>the top of which</s> they generally reached the top of these
plants and their stems were fully ½ in. in diameter.  I marked 
the spot, it was 30 ft. from the fence, 6 trees, where a small beech and
white oak grew close together, off the white oak was a large Tulip tree.

I kept on down the hill now to the spring which I reached in
a short time.  It was so well covered with leaves that it was
entirely invisible.  From the spring, I started for our hut.  Crossing
the brook at the 3rd highland, I stopped a little while to look
up last yr's patch of Aplectrum, only a few plants were noticed.

In a few more minutes I reached the hut.  Here I noticed,
that vandals had been committing depradations; the greater portion
of our roof had been carried off -- that fine piece of zinc.

It was nice and warm here so I decided to eat my dinner.

After dinner I followed the brook through the ravine.  To-day
it looked beautiful with its frosty trimmings.  The view of it
from the hut is again a grand one.  The cascades at Candle Camp
too, were very pretty.  In a little while I reached Orange Grove.
Here, I noticed boys & girls skating on the Patapsco above the
        