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March 21, 1903.  With Mr. W. to Round Bay and then along the Severn.
We met at Camden Station in time to take the early train.  We arrived
at R.B. about 7:30 a.m.  It was raining, occasionally it lightened and
thundered and then there would be a heavier down-pour.  At the station
we met a colored man, named Smothers, the new manager of the hotel.
Mr. D. left about a year ago and had bought  a place for himself.
We found the new manager very gentlemanly and quite intelligent.
We went with him down to the hotel.  On the porch, were his children
they were almost white and quite intelligent looking.  To-day, I wished
to see Cedar Point, so we asked Mr. S. how to reach it most wisely
and he told us, by going along the shore.  We learned from him, too,
that Mrs. Doesey was still living at her old place, but the Mr. Kelly had died.
We followed his advice and walked aong the shore, and very pleasant we found the
walk, notwithstanding the rain.  The heavy mists obscured occasionally the
opposite shore, sometimes, too, <s>I it</s> only the shore would be hidden 
from sight but the trees on the hills could be seen.  Between the
showers, when the rain sometimes almost ceased, the birds would be
heard and we thought "what a day this would be for the birds, if
it were clear."  After following the shore for a short distance, and having
gotten beyond the little bay the river here makes, we came to a very
        