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appropriated. As we paddled along, we could not wonder at the 

 superstitions of the savage, for we were awed to silence by 

 the grandeur of the scene. Our tiny craft seemed to arow 

 more and more tiny as we advanced ; we felt like pigmies, 

 and feared lest the plash of the paddle might arouse the ire 

 of the Spirit who had chosen the rock for his abode. The 

 summit of the rock is covered with evergreens, and on the 

 steep sides a little Evergreen or a Birch (Betula pap)/racea) 

 is here and there seen struggling for a foothold. By a clear 

 spring which trickled down the rock, the Poison Ivy (^Rhus Tox- 

 icodendroii) trailed, and along the face of the rock the Harebell 

 (Campanula rofimdi/oUa^ nodded in the breeze. Pentstemoii 

 puhescens was very abundant, and here and there we saw tufts of 

 Woodsia Ilvensis and of Ci/stopteris /ragilis. 



In the neighbourhood of Lake Mazinaw, we found at different 

 times during the month of July, the following plants : — 



Corallorbiza multi flora, Adlumia cirrhosa, 

 Piuus resinosa, Potentilla palustris, 

 Moneses uniflora, Geum strictum. 

 Pyrola chlorantha, Fragaria vesca, 

 Monotropa Hypopitys, Eibes prostratum, 

 Platantbera orbieulata, Saxifraga Yh-ginieusi^;, 

 bracteata, Aralia racemosa, 



psycodes, Cornus cireinata. 



Sambucus Canadensis, Sagittaria variabilis, 



Cephalantbus occidental!?, Aspidium Xoveboracense, 



Corylus Americana, Betula exceisa, 



CEnotherapumila, Quercus rubra, 



• biennis, Larix Americana. 



Aster punicens, Kalmia glauca, 



cordifolius, Andromeda polifulia. 



Lysimachia stricta, Cassandra calyculata. 



Hypericum paribliatum, JMplopappus umbellatus, 



Scutellaiia galericulata, Hypericum ellipticum, and 



Bruuella vulgaris, Ulmus Americana. 

 Shepherdia Canadensis, 



On the -ith of August we crossed from Mazinaw to Buckshot 

 Lake. If any one would test his powers of endurance, let him 

 shoulder his pack and try this " portage," much of which passes 

 through swamps and beaver-meadow, where the mud and water 

 are knee deep, and the mosquitos make their onset with a ferocity 

 beyond description. Here we found — 



Potentilla fruticosa, Monotropa uniflora, 



Pontedcviii. r.ordata. Cypripedium acanle, 



