128 THE AMERICAN BEAVER. 



and twenty-three from Marquette, we would be com- 

 pelled to break up our encampment at noon to reach 

 town that night, where my friend, the rector, was 

 needed to officiate in another capacity on the ensuing 

 Sabbath, I began to fear for the residue of my picture, 

 as the night set in rainy, with thunder and lightning. 

 Morning came, bringing with it no sun, but a gale of 

 wind, which set the tall tamaracks crashing down 

 around us. Those, against which our camps were 

 constructed, were twisted off; but as the wind came 

 down the pond, we were safe in the open space below 

 the dam, and besides this, it soon lifted the clouds. 

 Having moved the scaffold the day previous to the 

 front of the fifth section, with the first appearance of 

 sunlight this section was taken successfully on the 

 first trial, after which it was removed to the fifth and 

 last position, from which the sixth and seventh plates 

 were taken with equal success. As the last three 

 plates, like the first three, were taken in sunshine 

 more or less strong, while the fourth was taken under 

 heavy clouds, we moved back the scaffold in front of 

 the latter section, tried again and succeeded, and our 

 work was done. We then packed up our materials, 

 broke up our camp, and returned to the railroad sta- 

 tion in time for the last train to Marquette; having 

 accomplished, whether important or otherwise, the 

 undertaking of preserving a permanent memorial of 

 this remarkable beaver structure.^ 



The pond covers about twenty-five acres of land. 



^ The photographs put together make a picture six feet and 

 eight inches long. It was expected, when the text was written, 

 that this dam would be engraved. 



