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bermen whenever they fish for them. In Scragly lake I obtained a 

 species of Batrachian (called by the Indians " two logged trouts") 

 found in but few other localities in the State, the distinctive char- 

 acteristics of which require further investigation before being as- 

 signed to its true place in Ilerpetology. 



At the outlet of Second lake, and also at the outlet of Grand 

 lake, the lumbermen have established their dams with all the 

 "privileges and appurtenances" of gates and sluices "thereunto 

 belonging," and we found that the channel of the thoroughfare into 

 Grand lake had been improved by having the boulders cleared 

 away and thrown into piles, so as to allow boats and rafts of timber 

 to float free from their obstructions. Among these boulders, in 

 company with the conglomerates, we began to find abundance of 

 trap rocks, but we found no rocks of any kind in place on the route 

 until we arrived at what is called the Narrows, in the upper lake. 

 These narrows are formed by the jutting in of points of land on the 

 easterly and westerly sides, thus narrowing the passage of the 

 water so as to make them to appear almost like two lakes. A few 

 small islands and shoals are located here. On one of the islands, 

 and the point of land near the narrows on easterly side, the usual 

 clay slate appears, having the north-east range or strike, and near- 

 ly perpendicular dip. At the narrows, the islands and easterly 

 shore are composed of trap rock, and quite an extensive shoal, 

 which appears in dry times, is floored over with it. 



Beyond and north-easterly of the narrows the rock on the shore 

 is calcareous slate, and is undoubtedly the locality of "argilla- 

 ceous limestone" mentioned by Dr. Jackson in his report of his 

 exploration through the lake in IBS'?. After making an examina- 

 tion of these localities, and procuring suits of specimens of each 

 rock for your inspection, we proceeded up the lake in pursuit of 

 one of the objects of our mission, viz., to procui'e a good specimen 

 of the black bear ( Ursus Americanns) which Staples assured us 

 was "alliome'^ in that region. We landed on the north-westerly 

 shore of the upper section of the lake about middle of the after- 

 noon, where we 7'aised a sniolce to ward oft" the black flics, Avhich 

 now began to swarm in the woods and margins of the lake, attack- 

 ing us with intense hunger and ferocity. Staples and Bcsse imme- 

 diately started off into the forest on a bear trail, and before night 

 had one in limbo, which Besse dispatched by sending a bullet 

 through his devoted head 



