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regular and equal slope on each side. The shore is quite irregular 

 here, with sandy capes and mucky gulfs. The bottom of the north- 

 ern half of this stretch is of fine sand ; the southern part is a solid 

 platform of firm black dirt. 



The hill or bluff here comes down to the lake and there is a well- 

 wooded, high slope coming down nearly to the water-line. In most 

 places there is no beach at all, or only a very narrow one. The hill 

 is made up of a yellowish clay full of boulders. At about the 

 middle of the hill a torrent bed cuts somewhat into the hill and 

 makes a small sandbar off shore. There are many quite large 

 boulders along the v/ater's edge. Toward the southern half of this 

 stretch the shore becomes broader. The shore is gradual in its 

 slope; for the northern half it has coarsish gravel out for a little 

 way under water; farther out it is fine sand with ripple-marks. 

 Scirpus validus, the common bulrush, forms a large patch 15 feet 

 from shore and farther. Toward the southern end the bottom is 

 filled with gravel, the pebbles of which are about the size of goose 

 eggs. 



The next stretch reaches from this place to near Norris Inlet. 

 Back of the shore is a flat, dense willow and red osier dogwood 

 jungle. There is a broadish beach with a very gradual slope all 

 the way. The shore changes gradually from a flat soft fine white 

 sand with considerable vegetable intermixture to a flat miry black 

 or brown stretch of muck. The Scirpus, Potamogetons, cattail, 

 etc., grow so densely in the water that the bottom can be seen only 

 in a few places. It is quite flat and mucky and marly. There is 

 a good deal of Spirodela (duckweed), dead and white, and much 

 green algae may usually be seen washed up on this flat miry shore. 

 At the end of this stretch there are back of the flat beach two low, 

 broad, flat ice-ridges, very close together and side by side. 



The region about the mouth of Norris Inlet is a flat sedgy plain 

 with a low ice-ridge near the water's edge. At the west end this 

 ice-ridge is quite high and well-marked; at the east end nearer 

 the creek it is less distinct. 



The Inlet is tolerably narrow and deep where it enters the 

 lake ; farther up it becomes very crooked and shallow, and its bot- 

 tom is full of rootstocks of the yellow pond-lily, or spatterdock, 

 Nymphaea advena. It is surrounded by about 40 acres of flat, wet 

 marsh, overgrown with sedges, reeds, cattails and various grasses, 

 with bushes of red osier dogwood, or willow here and there. Much 

 of it is tussocky. Near the lake it is quaky and full of holes. 

 Along the sides of the Inlet are many lagoons. On both banks 

 near the water's edge is a thick, narrow growth of Decodon verti- 



