
          1003.

* If the climate, here, were only favorable we could soon have pineapples here in
abundance.

with the boat almost as soon as we.  We found a nice little
glade and here we made a fire, cooked coffee and ate our
lunch.  After eating our lunch we wandered about the woods.  Ilex opaca
grows here very profusely and most of it was filled with berries.  Here
too, we found Cypripedium acaule.  Chestnut trees were very abundant, but
no chestnuts were found.  Tecoma radicans was found and so also Celastrus
scandens.  In one place we found a nice patch of Dicksonia and in
another one of the Christmas fern.  The view of the Patapsco from the 
bluff is grand.  After enjoying ourselves this way for more than an 
hour we returned to our camp collected our belongings and then went
along the shore to the boat.  Pineapples that had started to root
in the sand were found in abundance, many of them were growing luxuriantly*.
We all got into the boat and started <s>for</s> homeward.
The boat although large and able to seat two or three more persons
was not large enough to carry us safely.  The waves dashed over
the sides of the boat and had we kept onward we would surely have
been swamped.  We therefore got ashore again and while Mr. K. & Mr. W.
rowed the boat to the Yacht Club's grounds we walked.  The water
in the creek was smooth and here there was no danger of the boat
swamping with us.  So we all got aboard and after sailing about for a 
        