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13.

Monday, August 10.

Threatening clouds rather than fog greeted us on our second morning as we started on the day's program. We paddled across to Cohasset and walked back to Big Rock, a massive piece of granite about twenty feet high covered on the top with rock-fern. Just beyond this rock was a large hawk's nest crowning the top of a decayed tree-trunk.

Cohasset is situated on a point of land covered with a growth of spruce and birch trees. From one of the camps to the west - Camp Agate - leads forth one of the most beautiful trails in the whole woods, passing now through a soft mossy swamp, now among the Dalibarda abd Oxalis, now past a spring of clear cold water, and finally ending in a choice sphagnum swamp. And what a swamp! The portion you first encounter abounds in tamarack and here and there, poking their white heads up above the soft sphagnum, you see the most beautiful of all Adirondack orchids - the white-fringed orchid, Habenaria blephariglottis. These grow in clumps of five or six, great heads of delicately cut flowers. These plants are so plentiful in this swamp that campers in the vicinity

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Habenaria blephariglottis