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swamp into hardwood, hemlock & pine ridges, into some of the best timber I have yet seen, including some fine old white pines. The Cedar swamp through which we have come for 4 or 5 miles is dense & still full of good cedar poles & pasts & some large enough for good saw logs. The timber would be worth several hundred dollars an acre over much of this swamp but it probably all owned. On the north side of the swamp the pine has all been cut for lumber many years ago.
The snow soon softened so we had heavy walking for most of the day but made about 17 miles. Were wet & tired at night & glad to eat our supper of bread & tea & a bacon & a spruce grouse & lie down before the fire on a bed of fir & hemlock boughs.
The timber today was a mixture of hemlock, pines, spruce & fir & hardwoods on the uplands & cedar & alders in the swamps.