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Title
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Letters, July 12th, 1911_006
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Alternative Title
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Letters, July 12th, 1911
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Date
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July 12th, 1911
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Creator
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Edith Schwartz Clements
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Description
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Edith Schwartz Clements handwritten letter
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Identifier
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nshs-rg3158am
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Transcription
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6 sections of peat, piled in chimney-like as pyramidal stacks. The peasants were busy piling these, or storing the dried section in the huts. In some spots, the diggings were six feet deep, the lowest layer having been farmed several thousand years ago! The ground was very springy as one walked on it. The most interesting thing to me in the vegetation was the little “catch-fly” plant with its red leaf-hairs exuding a sticky substance. I took great pleasure in killing a bothersome horsefly or so, & sticking him on the leaf to be “eaten” at the plant’s leisure. Speaking of flies: they were practically non-existent in Germany & even in Switzerland , screens are unknown. We have found them only in country places where cleanliness is not so absolutely general as in the cities. The horse fly & a smaller
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Rights
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