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them a work of toil and difficulty, a difficulty in- 

 creased a thousand-fold when a tract of fallen trunks 

 is met with, tossed in every direction like a bundle 

 of spillikins. There are, indeed, a few wide trails 

 intended for winter use when the thermometer is 20"^ 

 below zero and the water is as hard as diorite ; but 

 even these have their own peculiar drawbacks, leading 

 down as often as not to the edges of broad lakes, 

 and there ending abruptly, in which case a struggle, 

 heart-breaking and exasperating to a degree, round 

 the swampy shore is necessary before you can regain 

 your road on the opposite side. 



' The left side of the bay is terminated by the 

 magnificent cliffs of Thunder Cape. These cliffs 

 are very like the Pallisades of the Hudson, but 

 much more broken and varied in form. Their feet 

 are clothed in a splendid vegetation of pines and 

 birches, and their flanks are blazing with the bright- 

 coloured leaves of smaller trees. The Indians call 

 this fine headland the Great Manitou, and from a 

 distance it requires but little imagination to sketch 

 the outline of a sleeping giant with his arms folded 



"homologies," or the surviving relics of the bony plates, or rather 

 ganoid scales, which follow exactly the same curves, round those 

 strange remembrances of the Old Red Sandstone, the Lepidostei or bony 

 pikes of North America — a link connecting us with Old Osteolepis 

 himself. 



' I do not remember ever seeing the subject mentioned, but it is 

 certainly a very interesting one ; and still more interesting, if it could 

 be done, would be to watch the gradual separation of the scales of the 

 Lepidosteus till they are reduced to the white patches on our common 

 pike.'— The Doctor. — t:^.? Field. 



