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NAERATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION. 



note we encountered was the Maskigon, twelve miles north of 

 Grand River, where we encamped, having travelled, during the 

 day, fifty -four miles. The view of this scene was impressive from 

 its bleakness, the dunes of sand being more at the mercy of the 

 winds. I found here a large, branching specimen of the club- 

 fungus, attached to a dead specimen of the populus tremuloides, 

 which had been completely penetrated by these drifting sands, so 

 as to present quite the appearance, and no little part of the hard- 

 ness and consistency, of a fossil. The following figure of this 

 transformation from a fungus to a serai-stony body, presents a 

 perfect outline of it as sketched in its original position. 



On the day of our departure from the Maskigon, we enjoyed 

 fine weather and favorable winds, and proceeded, from the data 

 of Captain Douglass, seventy miles, and encamped a few miles 

 beyond the Sandy River. In this line of coast, we passed, succes- 

 sively, the White, Pentwater, and Marquette. Of these, the latter, 

 both from its size and its historical associations, is by far the most 



scattered over its whole xaWey.— Schooler aft' s Bfport on Indian Affairs, Detroit, A. S. 

 Cagg,' 18-10. 



