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* On this trip as also on several of our previous ones, we frequently found houses with windows wide open.  It seems as if our Tuberculosus Exhibition has already done much good.  Whereas formerly we frequently commented in the closed windows, we now occasion to comment on the wide open ones.

showing the height, one, a cross, cut into the bark of a beech, and the other
a string tied around the limb of a dead tree.  Hundreds of trees have been 
taken along with the ice.  In O. G. the villagers have already moved most
of their effects to places of safety.  At B's the water has already
been so high as to touch the porch and it is feared that with the next
freshet the home will go.  Portions of the road we found in an almost
impassable condition, great blocks of ice, heaped several feet high
occupying the road-way.  One large block of ice, estimated to
weigh nearly 3 tons was found resting against the railing of one of
the foot-bridges. The <s>ice</s> river above the dam at O. G. is again frozen
and the people at O. G. cross it.  We, however thought it wise not
to attempt it, because of the thawing weather.  Because of it, the
roads were in a dreadfully slushy condition and our feet, notwithstanding
rubber shoes were wet.  They were so <s>l</s> wet that we decided to build
a fire and dry them.  This we did beyond the ice heap north of the
village.  It was nearly 5.30 P.M. when we started for Ilchester and
the car terminus.  We reached the latter a little before 7 o'clock.*

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February 13, 1904.  A trip to "The Caves".  I met Mr. W. at the <s>Co</s> corner of
Lexington & Howard Sts. where we took the Emory Grove car at 8.20 A.M.
Mr. F. joined us later at the park.  It was our intention to get off
        