
          1118.

very little to be found of botanical interests we decided to go to
Swan Creek.  This we did, but we arrived there too late to do any
botanizing as we wished to get back to the boat by 3:30 p.m.  This
most of us did but it was about 4 before we were ready to start
homeward.  The wind, again, was all that could be desired at first
but soon died out and we proceeded very slowly.  It was sun down
when we reached the fort and eight o'clock before we landed
our folk.  The boat then had to be "cleaned up" so that it was
nine o'clock before we boarded the car and started homeward.
Everybody was heartily pleased with their trip.

578
June 12, 1904.  To Back Shores with Walter & Penny.  Pretty Snail
Hollow will soon be a thing of the past.  The debris brought from
the burnt district is being dumped here.  It would seem that
that the B. & O. railroad company intends to straighten one of its
curves at this point.

579
June 16, 1904.  With Section A. along Herring Run.  We met at 3
p.m.  About this time it looked very threatening, I thought that
we surely would have a thundersotrm.  But although it thundered
we had but a light sprinkling, not enough to wet the foliage.
        