den burst of river viewed from some precarious van- 

 tage point. 



Attractive picnic grounds are designated here and 

 there, and a thousand others are waiting to be found. 

 From Thompson through to Fond du Lac, one wild, 

 untainted gorge. Cut-over it is, and scarred with many 

 fires, but filled with unlimited possibilities. Even when 

 the river is low, and all its strength is sapped to run 

 our factories, the jagged rocks stand witness to the 

 fight that was and lead the imagination on to the strug- 

 gle that is to be. 



And all this almost adjoins the city parks of Duluth. 

 The hill above Morgan Park overlooks the valley, and 

 from there the roar of the river can be plainly heard. 

 Some day Duluth will realize the treasure that lies at 

 her very door, and will advertise around the world this 

 paradise that she now fails to see beneath her nose. 



FORESTRY IN GREAT BRITAIN 

 AND IRELAND 



By GENERAL C. C. ANDREWS, Secretary of the 

 Minnesota State Forestry Board 



FOR a very long period some of the large landhold- 

 ers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 

 Ireland have maintained timber plantations. Mr. 

 Henry Coleman of Massachusetts, who visited the es- 

 tate of Lord Yarborough in Lincoln county on the 

 northeast coast of England, October, 1843, says in his 

 1 i European Life and Manners," that he was informed 

 that Lord Yarborough and his father had planted over 



