VI CONTENTS. 



The fill- trade — Climate — The fisheries — Our voyageurs — Terraces — E.iv. 

 a la Chienne — An Indian tombstone — Les Ecrits — Character of the 

 woods — Cliffs — Otter Head — A cedar swamp — Alteration of temperature 

 — The Northern Lights — The Pic — Birds and fishes — One of the party 

 ill with fever — Drowned insects — Pic Island — Fires in the woods^ — 

 Caribous — Parus Hudsonicus — Terraces — The Professor's remarks on 

 Metallic Veins — Les Petits Ecrits — Islands — An Indian Eamily — Usnea 

 — St. Ignace — Deserted Mining Location — Ascent of Mt. Cambridge — 

 Furrows on the beaches — Masses of lichen — Ripple marks — Thunder 

 Cape — Fort William — The Kaministiquia River — The Fort — Acjuatic 

 Cows — Excursion to Kakabeka Falls — Paddles and oars — The river — 

 A DC-charge — Character of the interior of this region — Heavy dew — 

 The Falls 31-89 



CHAP. IIL 



FORT WILLI/VM BACK TO THE SAULT. 



The Pate — Remarks by the Professor on the Distribution of Animals 

 and Plants — Prince's Location — Minerals — Spar Island — the Victoria 

 Islands — The Professor's remarks on Mineral Veins — Swell on the lake 

 — Structure of the Pate — Varieties of the lake trout — Spawning of the 

 various fishes of the lake — Gulls breeding — Sails of birch bark — Neepi- 

 gon Bay — Cape Gourgan — Deserted mining location — Prof. Agassiz on 

 the Outlines of Continents — The miner's huts — Conjectures as to their 

 winter life — Scudding before the wind — " Dirty Water"-i-Head winds 

 — Remarkable trap dyke — Terraces measured — Black River — Intricacy 

 of the woods — Falls of Black River — Lecture on the Drift Formations 

 of the Lake — The brown bear — Drift wood — Habits of the grouse — An 

 Es'iuimaux dog — A port in a storm — Degrades — Lake contrasts — La 

 Viello — A sweating house — Difference in vegetation — Trap dykes — 

 Half breeds — A calm on the lake — Foxes — Trout fishing — Michipicotin 

 again — Moisture of the atmosphere — Indian dogs — Excursion to Michi- 

 picotin Falls — Features of the country — The Portage — The Falls — 

 Palcontological pot-holes — The Sandy Islands — A fox in exile — "Fran- 

 9ais" and " Sauvages" — Difficult embarcation — Gros Cap — White flow- 

 ering raspberry — The outlet of the lake — Arrive all together — Shooting 

 the Rapids 89-123 



CHAP. IV. 



FROM THE SAULT HOMEWARDS. 



Description of Lake Superior — Steamer for Sturgeon Bay — Scenery of 

 the St. Mary's Straits — The Bruce Mine — Miners inj ured by an explosion 

 — St. Joseph's — Remarkable boulder — Observations on it by the Profes- 

 sor — The Theologico-geological question mooted — The Grand Manitou- 

 liu— The "presents" to the Indians — Gross injustice of the present sys- 

 tem — Penetanguishene — Sturgeon Bay — A rough road — Change in veg- 



