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dor. To the northward of this line are the treeless wastes, 

 termed barren-grounds, the territory of the small arctic 

 cariboo. 



The monotonous character and paucity of species of 

 the evergreen forest in its southern extension continues 

 until the valley of the Saskatchewan is reached, where 

 some new types of deciduous trees appear — balsam- 

 poplar, and maple — forming a great addition to the 

 hitherto scanty fare of the moose. Here, however, the 

 forest is divided into two streams by the north-western 

 corner of the great prairies — the one following the slopes 

 of the Kocky Mountains, whilst the other edges the plains 

 to the south of Winipeg and the Canadian lakes. In the 

 former district, and west of the mountains, the Columbia 

 river is assigned as the limit of the moose. On the other 

 course the anipial appears to be co-occupant with the 

 wapiti, or prairie elk, of the numerous spurs of forest 

 which jut out into the plains, and of the isolated patches 

 locally termed moose-woods. Constantly receiving acces- 

 sion of species in its south-westerly extension, the Cana- 

 dian forest is fully developed at Lake Superior, and there 

 exhibits that pleasing admixture of deciduous trees with 

 the nobler conifers — the white pine and the hemlock 

 spruce — which conduces to its peculiarly beautiful as- 

 pect. This large tract of forest, which, embracing the 

 great lakes and the shores of the St. Lawrence, stretches 

 away to the Atlantic sea-board, and covers the provinces 

 of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward's 

 Island, including a large portion of the Northern States, 

 has been termed by Dr. Cooper, in liis excellent mono- 

 graph on the North American forest-trees, the Lacustrian 

 Province, from the number of its great lakes ; it is chiefly 



