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to get these trees to market (now it seems almost an impossibility) 
will make a fortune here, for I am told the logs of the Sitka cedar 
fetch a very high price at Victoria, in such high repute is the lumber 
in Europe. On the same slope where I first found the Chamecy- 
paris, Szlene Douglasst was growing in great clumps, and out of the 
rocks near by quantities of lace-fern (Cheilanthes gracillima). 
Higher came the little Saxifrage (.S. dronchialis, var. cherlerioides ), 
and the handsome shield-fern (Aspidium Lonchitis). 
Here night threatened to overtake us and we were forced to camp, 
though there was no water, and nowhere could we find a slope 
which could afford us a couch at a less angle than 30 degrees. Right 
against a huge bowlder, however, we built our fire, and as we had 
no blankets and. some of us no coats, we collected wood for an “all 
night’s session.’’ Fortunately this was abundant, as it is every- 
where in these mountains, and soon a roaring fire was blazing up- 
wards. We collected great cakes of snow, and putting into our 
_ quart cup handful after handful of this substance, in lieu of water, 
we soon had tea. As we sat around our camp-fire, partaking of our 
delicious repast of hard-tack, bacon and tea, the pleasure of the 
moment was rather clouded by thoughts of the coming night to be 
gone through, and I for one involuntarily repeated the words from 
a well-known selection, slightly amended: 
‘* Few and short were the prayers we said, 
And we spake not a word of sorrow, 
But we steadfastly gazed ” on the snow all around 
‘fAnd we bitterly thought of the morrow.” 
By constantly replenishing the fire all night, and by constantly 
changing our freezing and our roasting sides, we managed to keep 
moderately comfortable, and five o'clock the next morning saw us 
up, and shortly after, continuing our upward course. As we neared 
the top of this particular peak, I came upon a very interesting 
plant, new to me, and I had hoped, new to science, the Alaskan 
Spiraea (Eriogynia cespitosa), springing out from the top of vertical 
walls, in this respect very unlike its relative, £. pectinata, which or- 
dinarily grows in loose moraine material. I hear that Prof. Eaton 
thinks it a new species. In slopes on the summit was the dwarf 
huckleberry (Vaccinium cespitosum), then in flower. Next came 
the yellow Arnica Chamissonis, and a grass ( Trisetum subspicatum 
var. molle), with a sedge (Carex leporina). In thickets near by 
