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1816 Alby to Gibsonville or Washington - 6 m ---- to Troy - 1 ---- to Lansingburg (Diam Rock) 3 ---- to Waterford - 1 Cohoes bridge 1 1/4. Cohoes falls 3/4-- 2 [[a short pencil line divides the page]] L'herminier Natur. Charleston Mr Warrel Richmond owner of the Virgina Museum - [[a curved pencil line divides the page]] [[2 ink sketches of a Polyp Megalisma maculate, one showing a cross-section view]] Megalisma maculata Bank de Terre Neuve Diam. 6p. globuleux ovale, non flottant, aff. Megastoma -- Brun à tâches noires glabre comme ci cartilage bouche en grande fente de Coquille, inter ovide tout externe, plupart ondulé Mobile roulant, contractible, déprimait à l'[[ham---?]] --. Stevenson Mills 2 m W. Bedford in Oct. 1818 passed going West 4419 Souls. East 2979 Do- [[end page]] [[/start page]] Cohoes falls [[pencil image of an aquatic fan-shaped plant]] Fauve rouss^[[˜]] Infundi tulipe Ondulé bande roulis déchirés [[a short pencil line divides the page]] [[Torrents?]] 2 Phorima lutescens [[pencil sketch of an oval-shaped aquatic plant resembling a sponge with a small dark oval shape to its right]] [[pencil sketch beneath the first, showing concentric circles descending into the center of the plant]] [[Paras Arb-morte?]] [[a short pencil line divides the page]] Jaune, roussi, dessus plus foncé dessus Presque [[bai?]] jaune marg. dessus ditto [[a curved pencil line divides the page]] un peu zone concentrique dessus conv. fil et dessus
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Second page rough species descriptions in pencil in French - not easy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Louis_L'Herminier
Rafinesque seems to use a shorthand: for instance "rouss^[[˜]]" for "roussâtre" meaning "reddish"