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Cambridge, Mass. & Grindstone Neck
Winter Harbor, Maine
1901
July 22

M & I left Boston by the 8 o'clock morning
train for Bar Harbor. The ride in the cars was
rather warm the mercury ranging from 85°
to 88° between 8 A.M. and 5 P.M. when we
reached Mt. Desert Ferry. We passed large
fields of grass ready for the mowing machine
and large tracts that had already been cut.
We also saw a good many farms in good
state of cultivation. At the Ferry we boarded
the steamer Supplo and had a delightful sail
of half an hour to Bar Harbor. A haze dimmed
the mountains though the sun shone brightly.
At Bar Harbor we left Miss Brown whom we met on
the train in Boston. She lives in Belmont near
Fred Dodge and her brother went through the school
in town. We then sailed over the bay in the
Ruth to the Neck where Lucy met us on the
wharf and took us up to her new house. It
is a lovely spot. Two Guillemots passed close
to the Steamer as we rounded Iron Bound
Island. We reached the house at 6.15 P.M. and
were welcomed by Helen & May. We sat in the
piazza after dinner till nearly 9 o'clock when I
was glad to come up to our room as the long
warm journey is tiresome. This evening I
heard an Olive-backed and a Hermit Thrush
and Peabody Birds singing in the woods east of
house. I saw an Eave Swallow, 2 or 3 Robins
and heard Crows.

Mercury at the piazza at 7.30 P.M. 76°