
          863.

and in the ground grew Lycopodium complanatum.  I enjoyed my walk
along the lake very much.  Two interesting ravines were passed but I did not
stop to examine them.  I think it is up the second one that Magnolia tripetala
is said to grow.  At noon, I ate my lunch, but did not stop.  By the time
I came to a point opposite the three-arched bridge, the sun was shining
beautifully.  Here on the hillside are two old ruins.  The road at this point
turns to the right and leaves the river and leads into the Dulany Valley R'd
near the school-house.  Not knowing this though, I thought I would follow
the river bank.  For a time, all went very nice, and I was able to keep along
a large embankment, but about a quarter of a mile from the bridge this embankment
suddenly ended, (I learned later that it was artificial, having been
put there by the City of Baltimore,) and I was obliged to walk through a
very wet meadow.  My boots came in very handy now, for without them 
I would not have been able to make the trip.  The weather now was most
delightful and remained so for some time; but when I reached the
Dulany Valley R'd, I noticed off the northwest a very dark cloud forming.
It formed very rapidly and before I had gone half my way to
G. the storm was upon me.  I had taken off my rain-coat and
packed it away in my vasculum, but it did not take me long to
again get into it.  The rain soon came in torrents, and the wind
        