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letterhead Sep 25 1898 Dear LOuie. We drove up here from Cranbury Yesterday, a distance about 18 miles through the most
beautiful deciduous forests I ever saw. All the landscapes in every direction are made up of mountains, a billowing sea of
them without bounds as far as one can look. every mountain hill ridge hollow is densely forested with so many kinds of trees
their mere names would fill this sheet. now they are beginning to put on this? purple gold. Liriodendron Nyssa, sassafras,
oxydendron mountain Ash Tilia birch beech hickory ash magnolia 3 species, Chestnut, etc. maples I wish I could hand you a
bouquet of these leaves their beauty is perfectly enchanting. After lunch yesterday we walked 5 or illegible miles along
the mountain top where the tremendous storms of winter prevent trees from growing here the open broad ridge top for miles
is covered with 02474