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We stood to one side of the track and watched how the mail pouch
was taken from its fastening.  After the train had passed, we
again crossed the tracks and after stopping a few minutes at
the post office, where we made inquiries regarding the swamp
we wished to see we proceeded out the avenue ( G.B. Av.).  We
soon came to what must have been the swamp, quite a small
affair from what we had expected, so small, in fact, that we kept
on our trip thinking we had not yet come to it.  In this swamp
we were told grew Magnolia tripetala, and for that reason, made
the trip to-day to investigate.  The frozen condition of the ground,
covered too with snow, and the small size of the swamp
which was not very heavily wooded and cleared of trees on
the outside, caused us not to pay much attention to it and so we
finally reached Garrison Rd.  We went north on this road, on both
sides of us were large open fields, in some places, as far as the eye could
reach, not a tree could be seen.  The wind here could blow with full
force and we soon felt its effect.  When we reached the schoolhouse we
stopped a few moments to warm up, the building protecting us from the
cold blasts.  While here a man passed and we asked him regarding the
swamps of the neighborhood.  We learned then, that the one we had passed
        