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the oozy spots of this bank, the Yellow Mountain Saxafrage 

 {^Saxafraga aizoides) lay matted together in heavy masses, where 

 also grew straggling bushes of the Shepherdia (^S. Canadensis), 

 whose rusty scales were noticed in the last number of this 

 journal. The Yellow Evening-Primrose {^(Enothera hietDiis) took 

 a firm hold in the loose gravelly slopes, bordered above by the 

 Low Bush Willow (Salix humilis). Among the grass, on the 

 top and shelves, grew the Pasture Thistle (^Cirsium ptimilam), 

 Pearly Everlasting {^Antennaria rnargaritacea'), Yellow Ptattle 

 (^Rhincmthus Crista-galli), Mouse-ear Chickweed (^Cerustium 

 viscosum), Yarrow (^Achillea millefolium), and in the moister 

 places the Northern Green Orchis (^Platantliera hyperhorea) 

 and Epilohium coloratum, besides many others whose names 

 have been already mentioned The vsirietj juncides, of Plantago 

 maritima, the Birds-eye Primrose (^Primula farinosa), and the 

 delicate Carex aurea of Nuttall, grew from crevices in the rocks, 

 occasionally wet by the salt spray from the breakers. The rich 

 fronds of Aspidium acideatum, variety Braunii, were collected 

 in a wood immediately above the ' Gravel ' or Isthmus, where I 

 found the common English Garden Snail (^Belix hortensis), 

 which, from having been found extensively in Gasp^ and in the 

 islands of the St. Lawrence by Prof. Bell in 1658, I judge to 

 be indigenous here, and in those parts of Canada bordering the 

 Gulf. 



During the night the schooner sailed across the mouth of the 

 harbour, and next morning we found ourselves passing by Cape 

 Anguille, en route to Cod Boy Island. The shore all along was 

 apparently formed of red sandstone, on edges sloping at a very 

 high angle,' and indented with large clefts and chasms. The 

 waves washed the bases of the rocks, which were fringed above 

 with graceful shrubbery, and the dark green mountains, dotted 

 with the light foliage of the deciduous-leaved trees, rose gra- 

 dually to their heathy summits, which were divided from one 

 another by deep and winding valleys which lodge huge masses of 

 almost perpetual snow, and give rise to streams that wear away 

 the gullies and dash in foaming torrents to the sea. As the fea- 

 breeze blew over the land, the moisture in the air became con- 

 densed by the cold of the mountain tops, and soon formed clouds 

 which hid the summits from our view. 



