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Cerasus pumila of Michaux. This is the most 

 northern locality in which it, and the Hudsonia eri- 

 coides^ which was flowering freely at this time, were 

 observed. The Lonicera parvijiora was also showing 

 a profusion of fragrant, rich, yellow flowers, tinged 

 with red on the ends of the petals, especially before 

 they expand ; and on this day we gathered ripe 

 strawberries for the first time in the season. 



July 7th. — The Pine Portage was completed in 

 the morning, and an hour later we crossed the 

 Bigstone Portage of six hundred paces. After- 

 wards we passed the Nurse Portage (Portage de 

 Bonne), of two thousand six hundred and ten paces ; 

 the Cascade Portage, of one thousand three hun- 

 dred and eighty ; and encamped on the Portage of 

 the Woods, two thousand three hundred and fifty 

 paces long ; where two of our boats were broken. 

 At this place, and on many other parts of the 

 river, smooth granite boulders line the beach. 

 The strata in situ are limestone covered by thick 

 beds of sand. 



Jidy Sth. — The boats having been repaired early 

 in the morning, we embarked at half-past six, and 

 at eight came to a sulphureous spring, which 

 issues from the Ihnestone on the bank of the 

 river. Its channel is lined with a snow-white 

 incrustation, the taste of the water is moderately 

 saline and sulphureous, and, from its coolness, 



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