
          1096.

* Mosquites were about and were most annoying.

a pretty gray squirrel, also, my first butterfly, a large black one
with a yellow border <s>on</s> around the edge of the upper <s>ed</s> wings.  Up the stream, a short
distance from the camp, I found a spot which I thought springs.  I
dug out the spot a little and sure enough a stream of flowing water
was discovered.  After cleaning out the place a little, I piled up
rocks and thus made an ideal spring. I will call it Camp Run
Spring.  From the spring I proceeded to Orange Grove.  It is surprising
how much ice has disappeared, very little indeed, is to be seen.
From O. G. I went up Hilton Av. to the car terminus.  The day was
a delightful one, really an ideal spring day.

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April 9, 1904.  A trip again to the Swan Creek region.  I left
home before 7 o'clock to visit the Skunk Cabbage region near Brooklyn
<s>and</s> to collect some of the flowers and also some twigs.  In the fields,
Draba verna is flourishing also Capsella, and Lamium amplexicaule
is coming into flower.  In the woods Sanguinaria and Lindera are
in full bloom.  After securing my specimens, I hurried back to
B., where I took the car for Curtis Bay.*    I arrived there, nearly
half an hour late, Mr. W. & Mr. F. were both there awaiting me.
After putting my specimens away, we started for Swan Creek.

To-day, we intended taking a different route and that by

        