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It was a stroke of luck to find such a large tract of virgin forest in 

 such an old section of Wisconsin. Perhaps, the fact that the tract 

 had belonged in the same family so long accounted for its being intact. 

 The trees were mostly hard woods such as sugar maple, basswood, elm 

 and lOaks. The falls shown in figure 75 were from a perennial spring, 

 dropping over a fifty foot cliff, that was covered with moss and liver- 

 worts. Ferns and water plants made this a beautiful spot. The side 



Fig. 76. — Pine Knob, near Stitzer, Grant Co., Wis. 



hills were covered with ground hemlock (Taxus canadensis) then 

 fruiting. At the edge of the road, we saw an eight foot rattler that had 

 just been killed and hung on a stake. Near Livingston, we investigated 

 Pine Knob, where the altitude furnished the last stand for white pines. 

 This knob, shown in figure 76, was covered with northern plants, — 

 juneberries, blueberries, wintergreens and ferns. We made one trip to 



