
          842.

very disagreeable to walk on.  It took us two hours to reach Towson.
We reached home before 8 o'clock.

384
January 31, 1903.  To Brooklyn and vicinity.  I left home about 9 o'clock.
On account of the warm weather during the past week, all snow and ice had disappeared in
Spring Gardens.  Yesterday, however, it blew up cold, the ground was therefore frozen
this morning and a little ice was seen on the south shore of the river.  Noticed
that a new frame-building, a store, is being built on the shore, the front facing the road.
In front it is but one story high, in the rear two stories.  The building stands
on the site of a former squatter.  As I crossed the bridge, I looked, to see
if any of the willows planted in the water along the west side of the bridge were growing, but did
not find a single one.  As I passed through B. I stopped to examine the terminal
buds of the Paper Mulberry, my observations, however, were not satisfactory.  Near
Mr. McClennan's house I saw several beautiful evergreens and I thought of entering
his place to examine them, but decided to put it off till some other
time.  I took the road, leading towards Pumphrey's.  This roads leads through
the Cromwell estate, a tract of nearly 500 A., [acres] extending from the river to
Annapolis R'd and from Brooklyn up to a point about ½ mile from Pumphrey.
The wind, which had been blowing with considerably force during the night,
had since sunrise gradually diminished in velocity; the temperature, therefore
rapidly became warmer, so that now, with the sun shining brightly and not
        