House" commands the best view of any public house. Afternoon to the river above the Falls. A man says he calls these ducks "coween," 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 "old squaw."
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.
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