Here is a Circos visualization of the connections among words in Titus' diaries. The words appear in order of frequency in a day's entry. So "we crossed a brook on the way to the hardwood ridge and soon passed a plaister outcrop on a small ridge" gets one count for brook, hardwood and plaister, and two for ridge. Adding these up by across all days and looking at individual words, we can get a sense of what goes with what.
Spruce, hardwood, brook hill ............... down to cherry, beaver, flood, deer. First of all, can you imagine not seeing a deer every day in Nova Scotia in 2018? Times have changed.
My overall impression is one of consistency. I'm surprised at the lack of a stronger association between 'spruce' and 'swamp' or 'hardwood' and 'hill'
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