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vegetables of the northern states as well as some cereals can be grown. 

 The aspect of the light forest is much like parts of northern Minnesota 

 and the regions about Lake Superior generally : the insects collected 



Fig. 55. — Port Althorp, Alaska (merely a cannery). 



Fig. 56.— Looking north from Tannel Station, Alaska. Valley filled with glacuil 

 gravel in part very recent. 



were mostly species occurring in the region named and eastward to the 

 Adirondacks and New England. 



A return trip was made along the same route, with stops at Healy 

 and at some of the construction camps on the unfinished part of the 



