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[[underlined]] Outlet Swamp [[/underlined]]

[[underline]] Aug. 8 [[/underline]] - This mg. Mrs. Norton & I crossed the field at the foot of the lake where I found pitcher plants before the mowing was done, & went on to the trees bordering the Outlet.  Royal Fern - the wide spreading luxuriant looking [[underline]] Osmunda [[/underline]] grows there in 'acres', as Mrs. N said. I never dreamed of such fern growth. We waded through it above our waists - sometimes above our shoulders. An old disused road was filled with it, & a park under the high slender water maples was carpeted with it, & some [[underline]] Onoclea Sensibilis [[/underline]].
  Sweet gale, a bush allied to the bayberry, mt. holly, a Vibernum in berry & many other shrubs were there between the trees.
  Birds were very few but the red-eyed Vireo & wood pecker sang, & Maryland yellow throats called - we saw an ad.[[male symbol]]. Overhead we heard wax wings & the chatter of swallows.  A chestnut sided warbler was seen [[insertion]] & a Veery heard [[/insertion]]. Song sparrows were abundant & we scared up a swamp sp.  A tiny yellowish tree toad made us stop.  On a bank we saw what looked like a coon track - a hand. And close above the water was what looked like a deer bed but may have been a horse bed, as we saw a horse & one [[image - downward half circle]] in the soft earth.

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Kept Florence's spelling mistakes