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we have in Cnnadi. To the northward Orford, reputed to be 

 one of our liiuher peaks, with its broad, irregular outline obscur- 

 ino- the view of the extensive country behind, looks like a p:igai>- 

 tic boulder set up in relief against the horizon beyond. At its 

 base as it seems, thouuh some miles distant, is the lower end of" 

 Lake ]Meuiphramagog, which with its beautiful bays and inlets 

 and the hills on either side, sloping here abruptly and there 

 gently to its shores, seems from this heidit like a large pondr 

 though it stretches a distance of thirty miles past OwFs Head 

 southward into Vermont. To the eastward of Orford and repos- 

 ing in the lap of the hills which skirt the ^lassiwippi Valley is 

 Massiwip})i Lake. From this point beyond Lake ]Memphra- 

 magog in the middle distance between its shores and the horizon, 

 the eyes wander southward over a rolling country mottled with 

 light and sombre green, indicative of fields and forest, past Stan- 

 stead, with h;irdly abreak on the horizon beyond, until they meet 

 the Green Hills Avhich group themselves around Newport and 

 which extend thence southward peak beyond peak until they are 

 lost to the eye in the hazy distance. Far away in the background 

 of the view here but their outline somewhat dimmed, is the group- 

 of summits which form the White Mountains of New Hampshire^ 

 The flora of the summit of Owl's Head is confined to a few 

 common species and these of inconspicuous size. Here where 

 the summit is but a narrow peak, exposed on every side, the 

 scantiness and small orowth of the vegetation is to be attributed 

 to the bleak winds which must at this height be constantly hur- 

 ricaned across it, as well as to some extent to slides wiiich have 

 taken place, rather than to the altitude. There are no flowering 

 plants here which we might not also find in almost any part of 

 the Province of Quebec south of the St. Lawrence. Tadousac 

 and River du Loup at the sea level have several boreal forms in 

 abundance: here there is almost nothing to remind one of Arc- 

 tic life. The only northern plants are Lichens. Encrusting the 

 rocks is that little cosmopolite of the mountains and Arctic and 

 Antarctic regions of the globe, BueUl.a geographic^, Schaer., the 

 Map Lichen, its yellowish hue male more conspicuous by the 

 blackish fringe surrounding it: neir at hand is another pretty 

 yellow species Cttrarla jiuiiperina, Ach, var. pinastrl. Fr., and 

 growing beside both and contrasting strongly with its pitchy 

 color is another northern Lichen, Furmdia Sfi/gio, Ach., the 

 Blackalslaf of the Swedish Hills. 



