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[[underlined]] The Outlet [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] July 31 [[/underlined]]  Mrs. Norton & I paddled across the foot of the Lower Basin to the Pickeral [[mud?]] front & through its narrow channel between the arrow shaped leaves & blue flower spikes down the Outlet to the second rocks or Rapids. The water was like a Claude Lorraine - we were paddling into pictures all the time - colored photographs for while the [[slim?]]-like river [[strikethrough]] birches [[/strikethrough]] maples were reflected - their dark trunks & green foliage - the white clouds had blue sky spaces. The patches of vivid green [[insertion]] ? sedge [[/insertion]] marsh grass were duplicated & a note of warmth given by the rich ^ [insertion]] bloom of the [[/insertion]] cardinal flower, & the branch of reddened maple leaves reflected in the water. Arching bright green grass stems made ^ [[insertion]] green [[/insertion]] circles. loops in the double. [[superscript]] + [[/superscript]]
One picture at a turn seen under the arch of a long sweeping  ^[[insertion]] maple [[/insertion]] branch was of blue hills, white clouds blue sky [[strikethrough]] act [[/strikethrough]] framed by in ^[[insertion]] the [[/insertion]] verdure of the ^[[insertion]] river [[/insertion]] banks. The densely verdant banks besides ^[[insertion]] the slender tassels of the [[/insertion]] river maple had bushy young white - pines [[image - arrow circling lower inserted word]] stock [[/lower insertion]] alder, ^[[insertion]] gracefully arching [[/insertion]] silver birches, & a few dense dark green hemlocks. One dark patch of bank was lightened by the red berries of a mountain holly. Tree like masses of ostrich fern ^[[insertion]] fronds [[/insertion]] on top of the bank were offset by luxuriant wide spreading ^[[insertion]] royal fern [[/insertion]] [[underlined]] Osmunda regalis [[underlined]] drooping down a slope - overhanging. Under the dark banks, in the cool black water lay here and there 
[[superscript]] + [[/superscript]] A white birch a larger loop.