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[[underlined]] 1899 [[/underlined]]

April 3,
Left Washington 9:20 P.M.
Norfolk & Western

[[underlined]] April 4 [[/underlined]]
Roanoke - daylight
Snowing hard, 2 in. on ground
[[underlined]] Paluski [[/underlined]], Breakfast 8 still snowing
Pinus strobis com 
" [[Ditto for: Pinus]] [[nutis?]]   " [[Ditto for: com]]
Tsuga - abundant
Pinus virginianus, 2 com.
Oaks
Ash
Maple
Ironwood

[[underlined]] Bristol [[/underlined]], Tennessee 11:30
Snow all gone
Locust
Syccamores
Junipers

Gently rolling & hilly country, good farms & orchards, some rocks.

[[underlined]] Johnson City [[/underlined]]
mostly clay soil, some of the land is badly worked

Transcription Notes:
@siobhanleachman - checked species, kept Vernon's spelling, anything I'm unsure of is in [[?]].