
          630.

ripe.  Then again how often are trees found still holding their fruit
in mid-winter.  Such fruit one would say must be excellent; we find
it, however, without exception, most astringent.  Nota Bene

Whereas in the morning we had been several hours looking for
our tree, we now found our tree, got the fruit and had descended
again to the River R'd inside of three-quarters of an hour.

On our way back Mr. W. remarked the black appearance of the
trunks of our Betula nigra.  The tree is called the red birch
and we had often questioned why the Latin name should be
B. nigra.  No doubt the author described it as seen under
such conditions as we to-day saw them.

We hastened onward & reached the car terminus even before 5 
o'clock and took the car for home.

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Dec. 7, 1901.  To Glenburnie.  We met at Camden station and took
the 7 A.M. train.  It was very cold, I believe it was the coldest
day of this winter.  As we walked down the road from Glenburnie
our ears ached from the cold and Mr. W. complained that for
the first time his big toes felt cold.  Our fall thus far has been
remarkably cold: --the av. mean temp. for Oct. was 5° colder than that
of Oct. for last year and the mean temp for Nov. was 8° colder than
        