12 June: In the morning [the weather was] cool [and] slightly windy. Mr. Bodmer went out early to complete his sketch. Mr. Lesueur followed him, and I accompanied [Mr. Lesueur] for a while. Crataegus crus-galli often grows as an individual, roundtopped tree among low Rubus bushes; the snow-white Rubus flowers [were] bitten off by cattle. Sambucus and other plants also [grow here]. Urubus gathered in numbers and walked around on the ground like turkeys. Blackbirds were also common in this place.

Mr. Lesueur visited one of the Indian mounds, of which there are several, called mamelons. M12They are thought to be old Indian mounds.On top of one, and only on this one, he had earlier found numerous crimson Rudbeckia. Some time ago, one of the mamelons was opened; [they] tunneled in through a wolf’s lair on the side, but nothing [was found], other than completely white soil or clay. Our collection of animal [specimens] was not increased here. But Mr. Lesueur [got] a live Emyde [sic], which is nothing more than an Emys picta, even though he thought it was another species.