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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] Marshall [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] June 15 [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] Jefferson [[/strikethrough]] Marshall is on open, hilly country of red sand mainly, some clay & shale & iron rock in places. The clearings, pastures & fields cover more than half of the country so it appears like rolling prairie with timber strips here & there. The timber is small and mainly scrubby but with some good sized old trees. The pine is mainly [[underline]] [[vistes?]] [[/underline]] Oaks & gum & hickory form the bulk of timber. The great number of abandoned farms gives the country more of a prairie look than it would have. Cotton & corn are the regular crops At a dammed pond a mile from town we found Redwing blackbirds breeding in the cat tails, & big [[underlined]] Nelumbo luteuns [[/underlined]] growing. Found a quails nest nearly completed with the old birds at it Hollister set out a live of traps but I felt too weak & miserable to go out, so wrote reports
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Unsure of the pine species [[vistes?]]