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[[underline]] Auto to Naples [[/underline]]

Sept. 4, Miss Bliss took Miss Julia Madeira, Clara Burnam & me on a 65 9/10 auto ride from the Harman farm to Naples & back. 
  We went to Lovell, down to Black Mt. school & south to the Bridgton road at the foot of Pleasant Mt. then across the Moose Pond bridge, past Beaver Pond, & Highland Lake to Long Lake, through Harrison & Naples; back by West Bridgton, Saco Rim, Fryeburg Harbor & Shave Hill wooded to their shores  
It was a day of beautiful dark blue ^ [[insertion]] ruffled [[/insertion]] lakes ^ with wooded islets, of roads through forest vistas (blue sky through interarched pines) through ^ [[insertion]] [[elm bord'd?]] [[/insertion]] New England villages through farm land with tasselled cornfields, & open stretches with wide mountain views. From the top of a ridge we looked across over the eastern range which is our camp boundary & saw Washington's great bulk & height, & ^ [[insertion]] brother [[/insertion]] mountains rising beyond. There are no snow clad peaks, no striking forms, but a great mass of blue mountains with light and shadow & color enough to make beautiful pictures.
  In coming back, near Fryeburg Harbor (the ah-bah, the country people say) we had a more intimate view - of Kearsarge across [[insertion]] a [[/insertion]] flat that [[strikethrough]] highlined [[/strikethrough]] made it seem more companionable - as if we could step