108 THE FOREST REGION OF THE TEMPERATE ZONE. 



Early Trails and Settlements in the Forests. Isolation of some of these 

 Backwood Clearings. Beauty of Vistas upon Forest Streams. The Sioto 

 150 Years ago. Buffalo in the Forest Meadows. Birch Bark Canoes. 

 The " Canoe Birch." Value of Birch Bark. Carrying Capacity of 

 Birch Bark Canoes. Their Seaworthy Properties. Shooting Rapids in 

 Canoes. The Great Pine Trees of N.~W. America. The Pinus Strobus. 

 Forest Lumbermen. Mr. Lambert on Great Pine Trees. The Douglas 

 Fir. The Great Trees on Burrard Inlet. Historical Age of a Great 

 Pine. Great Flagstaff's. Pendant Tree Mosses. Great Fern Brakes. 

 The New Westminster Trail in the Early Days of British Columbia. 

 The Frazer River. A Great City Rising in the Wilderness. Great 

 Cedars. Queen Charlotte Islands Canoes. Sea-going Canoes of the 

 Hydahs and other Tribes. Raids by Fleets of Indian Canoes. Cypresses. 

 Great Silver Firs. Picea Magnifica. Picea Nobilis. Pitch Pines. 

 Sequoias. The Big Tree Groves of California. Destructive Effects of 

 Forest Fires. Vitality of Ancient Trees. Great Trees of the Southern 

 Hemisphere. Eucalypti. A Mammoth Eucalyptus. Foliage of Australian 

 Gum Trees. Australian Hot Winds and Droughts. The Blue Gum as 

 an Anti-malarial Tree. "Disinfectants" and "Deodorants." Water- 

 Absorbing Trees. Scented Eucalyptus Leaves. The Kauri Pine of 

 New Zealand. Kauri Gum. The Succession of Forest Growths. Na- 

 ture's Great Rotation of Forest Crops. Vast Age of Forest Growths. 

 Pine Seeds. Dormant Germination. W^hy New Varieties of Trees 

 supplant the Old. The Chemistry of Nature. De Candolle on the 

 Excreting Power of Roots. The Question of the Exhaustion of Soils. 

 Change the Universal Law of Nature. The .Darwinian Theory of 

 " The Survival of the Fittest." How Nature does her own Pruning. 

 The Work of Creation as a Self-Regulating and Self-Perpetuating Power. 

 Natural Tints and Colours in a Great Forest. Beauties of Tints in the 

 American "Fall." The Sleep of Plants. The Winter Rest of Plants. 

 Man as an Inhabitant of the Forest. Red Indian Forest Tribes. 

 The Indian of Cooper's Novels. "The Last of the Mohicans." The 

 Story of "Cora." Daniel Boone of Kentucky. His Pursuit and Rescue 

 of Girls carried off by the Indians. Cora detected " Marking the 

 Trail." Tracking and Trailing in the Forest. Human Footsteps. 

 Reading the Signs of the Wilderness. Frontier Scouts. Forest War- 

 farei The British and the United States "Indian Policy" contrasted. 

 An American Bishop on " King George's Men." Respect for the 

 Memory of King George III. Indian Trails and Footmarks. Ancient 

 Forest Paths. Indian Ambushes. Border Raids. Arrow Wounds. 

 Hunting Arrows and War Arrows. Backwoodsmen in the early Colonial 

 Days. Indian Attachment to their Forest Homes. Adoption of White 

 Strangers by the Native Tribes. General Bouquet and the Ohio Indians 

 in 1764. Demand for the Surrender of all Captives. White Captives 

 refusing to Leave the Indians. Pathetic Scenes and Romantic Inci- 

 dents. The Whites Carry off the Captives by Force. Ancient Fron- 

 tier Posts. Detroit. The Conspiracy of Pontiac. The Garrison of 

 Detroit saved by an Ojibwa Girl. The Night before the Rising. In- 

 dian Councils. Pontiac and his Indians Received by the British Com- 



