
          839.

*Sunday, Jan. 18, While at K's we were talking about the Weather Bureau's predictions, about their unreliability; rain
having been predicted; the prediction being "increasing cloudiness followed by rain" for the 17th and "rain" for the 18th.
We had some cloudiness but no rain and to-day it has been clear all day.  One man there said "Oh, yes to-morrow it will rain.

We retraced our steps and soon saw where we had gotten off
the track.  We stopped a moment to see the Lygodium near
the pond and learned that we could reach the spot by entering
the woods immediately on reaching the field.  I tied two of the
fronds loosely together to observe again more fully in the future.
We now went to the old mill, then to B's, and from there 
through the woods to the tracks, stopping on the way to eat our 
dinner.  It was half past five when we reached the tracks.
We reached G sometime before the train would arrive so waited it 
in K's.*  It was about 7:30 p.m. when we reached Camden station.

383.
January 24, 1903.  To Loch Raven and along the Gunpowder.  We met at Towson
about 8 o'clock.  The morning was raw, a cold penetrating north west wind was
blowing at the rate of 13 miles an hour, thermometer 24°.  It was cloudy and it felt like
snow was in the air.  The weather bureau, too, predicted snow.  We moved as rapidly
as possibly over the roads towards L.R.  Very glad were we to see that one of
those very high wooden trestle bridges of the Md & Pa R.R. had been removed and replaced by a
very substantially built iron one.  The pretty house in the hollow, close to [blank] station
attracted by attention, surrounded as it is, so snugly by everyone.  Along the roadside
are arborvitaes the tallest and prettiest I have ever seen.  On the lawn, too, is a very
large Paulownia imperialis.  We noticed that the pretty stretch of woods running
        