
          738.

delightful trip it was!  On our sides were frequently
large beautiful patches of Wood Fern to-day of a most 
pleasing green.  Our path led us pass [past] a nice spring of
excellent water -- a spring new to us.  After testing the
water we continued onward, up the hill it again went and
then again down; soon we came to a very abrupt descent
but still it kept onward.  We soon saw that we had
crossed the crest of hills that formed the western boundary 
of our ravine and that we were entering another ravine.

After about an hour's walk, we came, as we had alreday begun
to suspect, to the busy little settlement at the Orange Grove
entrance of the new tunnel.  We had heard that the tunnel was
finished and that one could walk through, but examination showed,
that although we could have walked through, an opening at
the top of the tunnel about 8 ft. high having been dug out, that
what was known as a bench had still to be removed and that
really but 80 feet of the tunnel was finished.  We entered the
tunnel and were very much pleased with what we saw.  The
entire tunnel will be arched; first, with heavy timber and
then with brick.  A great deal of work still remains to be
        