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pitcher-plants and others which grow in these places, the roots 

 of the trees seem to form a solid network underneath, but in 

 the open places the grasses grow on a thin mat of decayed 

 vegetable matter, under which there is nothing but ooze for 

 many feet. 



' On the other side of this marsh a series of heavily wooded 

 hills, in most places more than one hundred feet high, stretch 

 toward the northeast more than sixteen miles, forming Point 

 Abbaye, which is very wild and almost entirely covered with 

 a virgin forest of hemlock, pine and hardwood trees and in 

 some places by dense cedar swamps. The gloom of the forest 

 under the far-reaching boughs of great trees is not inducive 

 to Orthoptera, but game is abundant. Bears, wolves, lynx 

 and wildcats are known to inhabit these forests, and deer are 

 abundant. A lynx once followed me for quite a distance 

 when I was out bound for the hemlocks in search of Podisma. 

 Across the marsh, along the foot of the hills, a brule (a tract 

 of woods which has been killed by fire) extends for over a 

 a mile, now covered in many places by a vigorous young 

 growth of aspen ; but, where the charred trunks are still 

 standing, the underbrush is chiefly composed of hazel bushes 

 and raspberry vines. In this place, where the sun has easy 

 access to the ground and the grass is consequently abundant, 

 I found the collecting to be very good. The country back of 

 the nearby towns of L/Anse and Baraga is heavily wooded 

 except in the vast tracts where forest fires have swept through, 

 leaving nothing but charred remains ; there are also many 

 farms, as the soil, although in most places stony, is very fer- 

 tile. The L/Anse et Vietix Desert Chippewa Indian Reserva- 

 tion extends along the shore of Keweenaw Bay between Pequa- 

 ming and L'Ause, and in the pastures of the Reservation I 

 found the collecting to be of the best. On the north the 

 Pequaming marsh is separated from the lake by a narrow strip 

 of sandy soil, covered with Norway and white pines and car- 

 peted with huckleberry bushes, arbutus and other sand-loving 

 plants ; but the only insects to be found there were a host of 

 dragonflies, a few beetles and the scarce butterfly, Colias 

 interior. On the south this marsh extends almost up to 



