
          682.

saw that a freight train was ahead of us and was the cause of
the trouble.  Two of its cars had been derailed.  It took over
two hours to put the cars again on the tracks; so instead of
reaching "The Rocks" at 9:30 A.M., it was 12 o'clock before
we arrived. The place taken its name from the mass of rock
which runs about perpendicularly from the creek to the height
of about 300 ft.  They are weathered and cracked most picturesquely
and at the top one might almost think that the great rock
had been thrown right one upon the other haphazard-like.
Our first duty on reaching the place was to climb to their
top.  To do this we had to cross the creek, which meant either
a walk down the track to the railroad bridge or up the county road
to the county bridge.  We were told that the one along the road
would be closer, so we went that way.  On this trip we were
accompanied by a young man, a Mr. Uhlig, a traveling salesman for
Parke, Davis & Co., and whom Mr. W. had known for some time. We met
Mr. U. on the train.  He was on one of his trips, intending to stop off at
Belair, but the wreck of the morning had broken up his plans for the
day, so he thought he would go with us.  There seemed to be
an unusual dearth of plants along the road-sides, even the hillsides
        