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 Usually the woods are fringed with low intervale and meadow behind. I am told that in the cellars of St. Paul there is stone enough to complete the building, and the cellar wall is often left perfectly perpendicular and smooth-faced [with this stone].

June 19. Thoreau says &quot;the Illinois man calls the vine we see, yellow fanilla, from the color of its root.&quot; Speaking of wild pigeons, he says he finds from five to three young in its nests; says &quot;they here feed on the pea-vines, which are swelling and sprouting (purple flowers)." He adds that the European hop will not flourish here.

Good river from New Ulm to—? Much more bare bluff and plain to-day, commonly bare. Great bends in this river; by the channel two hundred and fifty or three hundred miles to Redwood, but not more than one hundred and twenty miles by land in a straight line. We see ducks, a rail? the Amorpha in bloom,—a dark violet purple. The pigeons seem straggling here. The Illinois man once lived where he could hear