On a walk of two miles in southern Indiana, I counted 

 fifty- two trees and shrubs. In the North, one has to 

 look sharply about him to find twenty species on a 

 similar walk. On the whole, bird and beast, wind 

 and water are and have been the great carriers of 

 seeds; still the presence or absence of certain species 

 is not always easily accounted for. Minnesota, for 

 instance, contains little beech and only two or three 

 patches of hemlock. The hemlock grows under other 

 trees and it is not exposed to the full force of the 

 wind. These isolated patches of hemlock found near 

 the St. Louis River were probably accidentally planted 

 by the Indians. 



THE INDIANS 



Most of the Indians now in the North woods of the 

 Central states are Chippewas, who still build the in- 

 teresting bark houses of their ancestors. The great 

 unsettled part of Canada, south of Hudson Bay is in- 

 habited by the Crees. 



THE ANIMALS 



In the great evergreen forests still live tfre large 

 and small game animals and the fur bearers on which 

 the Indians have always subsisted. 

 THE MOOSE 



So large and strange a creature is the moose that 

 he seems to belong to another geological age. His 

 structure seems not so strictly specialized as that of 

 modern animals. He has the muzzle and the long 

 legs of a horse, the ears of a mule, the cloven feet of 

 the ox, and the short tail of the rabbit. 



One never forgets the first moose he saw. An old 

 t nipper had assured me that I would see moose on a 



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