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done and possibly more than a year will elapse before the
work is completed.  A short distance from the tunnel's entrance
is the plant for generating electricity and compressing air.
Electricity is used for lighting the tunnel & the <s>the</s> compressed
air for drilling and for <s>purifying the</s> removing the impure
air.  We went on top of the bench and we saw that we could
look through the tunnel, we could not walk through though as
in some places there was water <s>was</s>knee-deep.  During the past week
the men had been completing on an average four feet a day.

From the tunnel we went to Ilchester along the railroad.  At I.
we took the River R'd and returned to Orange Grove.  Near the
prominent rock about half way I planted 3 specimen of Cornus
Canadensis sent to me from N.H.  At O.G. we crossed the river
and walked up Hilton Av. to the car terminus.

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August 2, 1902.  Yesterday, Mr. W. brought me two flowers
of a beautiful orchid which I recognized as a Habenaria.
They were of a beautiful purple color.  Upon closer examination
I learned that they were the flower of Habenaria peramoena.
The flower had been given Mr. W. by a friend Mr. A.  Where
they grew, however, he had not told him, except that on his
        