and fruit; momitain ash and elder, with red, clustered 

 berries ; vihiirniuiis tliat would grace the finest pleasure 

 ground ; dogwoods of northern species ; sumach, beauti- 

 ful at e\ery leafy season; blueberries in the open, rocky 

 places ; wild roses by the streams and roadsides ; l)lack- 

 berries with splendid flowering stems ; witch hazel with 

 its strange autumnal bloom ; rhodora, spreading out great 

 sheets of pink in spriug ui)on the peaty marshlands, min- 

 gled with the fragrant labrador tea ; brilliant-berried 

 ilexes, sold in the cities at Christmas time for holly ; and 

 a host of others. 



No inch of ground, in sun or shade, is left unoccu- 

 pied. The very rocks are lichen-clad and ferns mat over 

 them in shady places. Trilliums and wild orchids bloom 

 in the forest depths, with white-flowered hobble-bushes; 

 clintonias and the fragrant northern twin-flower that 

 Linnaeus loved extend themselves as in wild garden beds 

 upon tlie woodland floor. 



Everywhere there is life, spreading mats of crowberry 

 and the beautiful coast juniper where they are deluged 

 l)y the ocean spray in winter storms ; clothing wind-swept 

 granite heights, wherever there is crack or cranny soil 

 can gather in, with partridge-berry, blueberry, and 

 mountain cranlierry ; penetrating the forest shade and 

 profiting by the dense northern covering of leafy humus 

 that it finds there; and rich, wherever nature has not 

 been disturbed, in infinite variet}^ — of mosses, fungus 

 growths and ferns as well as flowering plants. Few 

 forests in the world, indeed, outside the rainy tropics, 

 clothe themselves with such abundant life, and there are 

 none that bring one more directly into touch with nature, 

 its wildness and its charm. 



"Whilst W'C folloived on our conrsc. there came from the land odors 

 incomparahle for sweetness, brought with a warm wind so ahundantly 

 that (III the Orient parts eould not produce the like. We did stretch out 

 our hands, as it loere. to take them, so palpable were they, ivhich I 

 have admired a thousand time since." 



Marc Lescakbot. 1609. 



Purchas translation. 



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