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 House&quot; commands the best view of any public house. Afternoon to the river above the Falls. A man says he calls these ducks &quot;coween,&quot; and that they and other ducks, both wild and tame, alight in the mist and are often carried over the Falls. That they catch with a seine here black and white bass, pickerel, muskellonge, etc.; and below the Falls, eels, catfish, etc. I find Indian pottery. In the woods east of Niagara Town is the red-bellied woodpecker (Picus carolinus). The ducks in the Rapids are apparently the long-tailed duck or &quot;old squaw.&quot;

May 18. Measure the trees on Goat Island. The bass (two of them) fourteen feet four inches, and thirteen feet five inches; two beeches, eight feet six inches and seven feet seven inches. [This was the circumference. Measuring the girth with a string is the common method.]

On the 19th of May, which was Sunday, there is no entry in the Notes, unless it is this:

N. B. See about letters and write home.