Douglas — The Man and the Tree. 



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Company posts, ami embarked for Eng- 

 laiiil. wliifh he reacheil in October of the 

 same year. Two years later he left Kng- 

 laml for the last time, and reached the 

 mouth of the Columbia on June 3, IS.'IO, 

 remaining in Oregon until the autumn, 

 wlien he sailed for Monterey. Here he re- 

 mained until the next summer, discovering 

 no less than a hundred and fifty species of 

 unilescrihed plants, and then sailed for the 

 Sandwich Islands. In the autumn of this 

 year he returned to the Columbia River, 

 and in the following summer extended his 

 exploration as far north as the Fraser 

 Kiver. in which he was wrecked, losing his 

 collections and instruments, and barely 

 escaping with his life. But the beauties of 

 troj)ical vegetation lured him from the 

 awful solitude of the sombre fir forests of 

 the northwest, and in October, 183.3, he 

 sailed again for the Sandwich Islands. 

 Here he passed the winter, and on the 12th 

 of July. 1s.".4. wliilo I'liiraired in cx-ploring 



tlie high i»eaks of the island, he fell into a 

 pit in which a wild bull had l)een captured, 

 and several hours later was found dea<l and 

 terribly mangled. 



' Douglas is said to have introduced two 

 liundred and seventeen species of jilants 

 into Knglish gardens, the list including 

 many valuable and beautifur trees, like the 

 Kedwood, the Sugar Pine, ami the Douglas 

 Fir. No other collector has ever reaped 

 such a harvest in America, or associated 

 his name with so many useful plants. By 

 an unfortunate hazard of fate the noble 

 Douglas Fir, the most important timber- 

 tree introduced by Douglas, and one of the 

 most valuable trees in the world, does not, 

 as might well have been the case, per- 

 petuate his name in the language of 

 science, and it is a humble primrose-like 

 alpine herb which commemorates this ex- 

 plorer of forests and discoverer of mighty 

 trees.' 



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Algonquin Park, Live Beaver in a Trap. 



Animals in Algonquin Park 



Algonquin Park is the property of the 

 people of the Province of Ontario, and lies 

 in the heart of the province between the 

 rich farm land of the southern border 

 along Lake Ontario and the great clay 

 belt, now being opened to settlement on 

 the slope into James Bay. The south- 

 western corner of the park is about 150 

 miles north of the City of Toronto. It 

 contains 1,750,000 acres, and is roughly 

 a square of a little over fifty miles a side. 

 A number of cutting licenses existed in the 

 park when it was set aside as a provincial 

 park and game refuge eighteen years ago. 



Some of the licenses have been bouglit out 

 and some remain. The shooting and trap- 

 ]>ing of game has been prohibited, with 

 the result that the numbers of game ani- 

 mals have very greatly increased. 



The park, occupying a watershed, con- 

 tains within it the source of a number of 

 important rivers and streams, which ferti- 

 lize the surrounding lands. In the same 

 wav this game refuge has become a reser- 

 voir of game from which the deer and 

 other animals spread out into the surround- 

 ing part of the highlands of Ontario, great- 

 ]v improving the sport in those parts of 



