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The ridges between the lakes rise in general to heights of 

 twenty-five feet or more, though bluffs are not formed. These 

 ridges are mostly covered by mixed hardwood forest in which 

 the hard maple, yellow birch, hemlock, and linden are the 

 dominant trees. There are numerous small wet depressions, 

 some of them containing small black spruce bogs, while others 

 include a few arbor-vitae mixed with linden and other typical 

 trees of the wet hardwood forest. Small areas of nearly pure 

 hemlock occur on some slopes near the lake shores. A few 

 large tamarack bogs are present. 



Though the pines formerly occurring have been taken out, 

 the region otherwise is in nearly its native condition. A few 

 former clearings along the lake shores have grown up to 

 brush or to white birch saplings or small trees. 



Little Girl's Point Region. Much of the region in the near 

 vicinity of Little Girl's Point has been cleared or burned, but 

 a few miles to the east and southeast there are still consider- 

 able areas of native forest. The high ridge running through 

 the region bears a splendid forest of maple, yellow birch, and 

 linden, with little if any hemlock. However, on the steeper 

 lower slopes hemlock occurs in nearly a pure stand. At one 

 place was found a nice grove of large white pines, mixed, on 

 the lower edge of the slope, with a few hemlocks. Black spruce- 

 tamarack bogs are extensive and arbor-vitae swamps occur 

 commonly. The extensive burned areas south of the point 

 have grown up to a thicket of aspen, birch, and various shrubs 

 and saplings. A few small areas are under cultivation. 



Region at the north end of Gogebic Lake. Most of the 

 region about the north end of Gogebic Lake is low and wet. 

 A number of small black ash swamps occur near the lake, and 

 further back there are extensive black spruce bogs. The main 



