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holloas, even while we could distinguish human voices at an appa- 

 rent distance of half a mile. In the morning we learned, upon 

 further search, that a pond of considerable size stretched between 

 us and a little colony of five houses and flourishing forms. Neither 

 were the houses or the lake and stream represented upon our 

 largest map. This little settlement, thus shut out from the world, 

 consists of the farms of Messrs. McLaughlin, Robinson and Moore, 

 with one or two others, and is called " Mill Privilege." The soil 

 has a true granitic character, and yet is of such a friable nature 

 that the yield of grass is abundant. In the town of Carroll, a few 

 miles from this settlement, it was my privilege to examine some- 

 what hastily the well-conducted farm of Ezekiel Brown. The soil 

 did not differ materially from that at Mill Privilege, and Mr. Brown 

 was obtaining fine crops fi-om his well-tilled farm. There are indi- 

 cations of more or less crystalline limestone through this section. 

 It crops out, as noticed by the geologist, in Carroll, and probably 

 aids in giving increased fertility to the soil. In concluding this 

 notice of the section which ma,j be called South Carroll, I would 

 say, that there appears to be in it much available, productive 

 farming land. Considerable of the timber is of good quality, but 

 much of the kind has been swept by fire. Pursuing our journey, 

 we arrived at a lake of irregular shape, situated on the east of 

 Junior lake, and in many respects resembling it. We examined, 

 in the vicinity of this lake, two other smaller ones, each reached 

 by a devious path through tangled second-growth and fallen trees. 

 One of these was Pleasant lake, so called, and it is rightly named. 

 We had before seen it from the east, when Mr. Hitchcock and his 

 assistant searched with Mr. Bailey for the native copper on the 

 shores of the lake. It has high granitic banks upon the north and 

 east. The ledges on the eastern shore assume very fantastic forms, 

 such as extended shelves, making long and open-mouthed caves of 

 granite. In one of these caves, or rather under one of these im- 

 mense roofs, we found several fungi of much interest which will 

 be hereafter noticed. But with tlie exception of these and some 

 other Cryptogamise we saw little worth noticing as regards the 

 Flora of the district. The extended exposures of hornblende gran- 

 ite (syenite) forbid our speaking of the eastern and northern shores 

 of Pleasant lake as eligible farming land. The other lake referred 

 to, was much like the one just described, only it had very large 

 timber on some parts of the shore and lodged at the outlet. In 



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