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[[margin blank]] Feb. 1 [[squared circle]] Our camp was about 6000 feet on a small hill but it was unusually cold at night with frost but no ice. Warm mist steamed up from the large canals & flooded fields. The traps caught nothing, the soil being a hard red clay & dry at this season. At tiffin time we stopped well up in the hills at 7000 feet amid a forest growth of alder, chestnuts, pines, oaks, etc. with soft black loam & many undershrubs, brambles, canes, iris [[strikethrough]] be [[strikethrough]] bearing pale blue blossoms, etc. Some of the deep red Rhododendron flowers were seen. After tiffin we passed thru a mountain side clothed by heavy virgin forest of many green leaved trees. Runways of rodents & many streams of water & much dampness was seen here. At 3 P.M. we had a