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Salem, N.Y. to Cambridge, Mass.
1901
July 9

Comfortable & cool, heavy rain in the morning.
Cloudy day.

This morning the clouds thickened and when
we left the house with Miss Audubon and
Miss Florence, after bidding goodbye to Miss
Harriet Audubon and Miss Young, the rain
was coming down in torrents and our
Lake George trip was abandoned. We bade
farewell to our hosts as the train moved
out of the depto at 10.07. The rain had
stopped and the sun broke out at inter-
vals and a heavy cloud covered the sky
by noon and remained so the rest of the day.
We followed White Creek & Battenkill River
to Eagle Bridge where we waited two hours
for the train from Troy. I rambled
about at this uninteresting junction and
collected one plant which I put in my
valise and shall press. It was growing
on a sandy grassy bank by the track.

At 12.33 our train appeared and we had
a pleasant run across the State. We
spun down the valley of the Deerfield
River and climbed that of Miller River
crossed the Nashua Valley and arrived
at Cambridge by 5.40 reaching home
by about 6 o'clock.