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It has been more interesting in other ways than in its crookedness 

 and difficulties. At the port the trees were, so tall and large as to 

 attract attention. But as we went deeper into the forest the cedars, 

 spruces, firs, hemlocks and pines became so much larger that we 

 had to stop now and then to admire their giant trunks, and their 

 great masses of green foliage a hundred feet and more above our 

 heads. Huckleberry bushes of two species (Vaccinium ovalifolium and 

 V. parvifolium) grew by the trail side offering their tempting fruit 

 to us as we passed. There were mosses and lichens everywhere, 

 sometimes hanging from the branches in great masses, a foot in 

 diameter and a yard in length. At our feet, by our side, even on 

 the mossy trunks of the trees, were pretty flowers of many species, 



The Geologist's Lecture in the Wind-worn Cove. 



ferns, and even shrubs in profusion. On the ground here and there 

 were gigantic ferns (Pteris aquilina lanuginosa) seven to eight feet 

 high, and a yard across, and looking more like shrubs than the 

 modest brakes of the east. 



Do you marvel that I call this a wonderful trail, and that in spite 

 of its length and difficulties it was so full of interest that these 

 were soon forgotten, and only its beauties and scientific interest re- 

 membered ? 



