
          977.

knew how to advise him.  Mr. W. asked him about his loss of smell.
The doctor said it is the first sense we lose with the approach of
age.  We spent possibly an hour with the doctor.  We were very 
much surprised to find that it was after half past eleven a few moments
later while hurrying onward to Marley bridge.  At the bridge we got water
and then entered the woods to the left, where we prepared coffee and ate 
our lunch.  After lunching we proceeded towards the old furnace.  We stopped
a moment at Tinder Creek, here we found Sabbatia[Sabatia] chloroides, Eryngium,
Discopleura and Gerardia purpurea, the latter in profusion.  We then went to 
the spring near the old furnace and looked for fox grapes.  We
found some but they were not as plentiful as they were last
year.  After we had gathered the grapes we started for the station
stopping only a few moments to see Mr. Helman.  Arrived at the station
we had<s>but</s> a few minutes to wait for the train <s>which still</s> we arrived
in the city about 7 P.M. [note written in red pencil: Let us not forget fox grape island in 1904]

465
August 31, 1903.  With George to Curtis Bay, from whence we went as far
as the haunted house.  It was cloudy and the wind was from the north-east.
This is the fifth day of <s>partly</s> cloudy and rainy weather.  On 22 days of this
month it has rained.  Around the haunted house there are many hop vines
all now in bloom or in fruit.  After securing a picture of the house

        