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  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTE. 
  305 
  

  

  As 
  the 
  railroad 
  winds 
  about 
  among 
  the 
  low 
  drift 
  hills 
  or 
  

   cuts 
  through 
  the 
  ledges 
  of 
  rock 
  or 
  drift, 
  crossing 
  a 
  small 
  

   river 
  now 
  and 
  then, 
  the 
  passenger 
  finds 
  little 
  to 
  do 
  outside 
  

   but 
  study 
  the 
  trees 
  and 
  boulders 
  along 
  the 
  way. 
  It 
  soon 
  be- 
  

   comes 
  monotonous, 
  the 
  nearer 
  view 
  being 
  too 
  often 
  the 
  in- 
  

   evitable 
  burnt 
  district 
  of 
  bare 
  and 
  blackened 
  trunks 
  skirting 
  the 
  

   road 
  on 
  either 
  side, 
  with 
  a 
  rank 
  growth 
  of 
  weeds 
  and 
  bram- 
  

   bles, 
  or 
  seedlings 
  of 
  maple 
  and 
  oak, 
  along 
  with 
  the 
  elm 
  and 
  

   maple, 
  and 
  the 
  ever 
  present 
  paper 
  birch, 
  its 
  white 
  trunk 
  

   sharply 
  limned 
  on 
  the 
  surrounding 
  green 
  or 
  gray. 
  One 
  sees 
  

   many 
  tracts 
  of 
  pine, 
  the 
  red, 
  the 
  white, 
  and 
  occasionally 
  the 
  

   gray. 
  The 
  trees 
  of 
  the 
  economic 
  kinds 
  are 
  generally 
  small, 
  

   and 
  few 
  of 
  the 
  logs 
  seen 
  at 
  the 
  mills 
  in 
  Tower 
  were 
  more 
  than 
  

   fifteen 
  inches 
  in 
  diameter, 
  the 
  average 
  being 
  even 
  less. 
  This 
  

   would 
  not 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  because 
  the 
  largest 
  have 
  been 
  culled, 
  

   though 
  this 
  may 
  be 
  true 
  to 
  some 
  extent, 
  but 
  because 
  the 
  trees 
  

   are 
  naturally 
  of 
  smaller 
  size. 
  I 
  noticed 
  the 
  same, 
  the 
  year 
  

   before, 
  at 
  the 
  entensive 
  mills 
  at 
  Chicoutimi 
  on 
  the 
  Saguenay. 
  

   ^J 
  is 
  true 
  the 
  yellow 
  pine 
  is 
  always 
  somewhat 
  small 
  and 
  

   slender, 
  but 
  though 
  some 
  larger 
  boles 
  of 
  white 
  pine 
  were 
  oc- 
  

   casionally 
  seen, 
  they 
  nowhere 
  showed 
  the 
  vigorous 
  habit 
  of 
  

   those 
  found 
  in 
  Michigan 
  and 
  Wisconsin, 
  if 
  haply 
  a 
  wood 
  un- 
  

   touched 
  by 
  fire 
  at 
  all 
  were 
  met 
  with. 
  There 
  is 
  much 
  swampv 
  

   and, 
  not 
  generally 
  in 
  large 
  areas, 
  but 
  frequent 
  patches 
  of 
  

   low 
  ground 
  left 
  by 
  the 
  retreating 
  ice-sheet 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  

   glacier, 
  whose 
  evidence 
  is 
  seen 
  on 
  every 
  exposed 
  outcrop 
  of 
  

   scored 
  and 
  planed 
  rocks, 
  hollows 
  strewn 
  with 
  boulders, 
  over 
  

   Which 
  is 
  spread 
  a 
  covering 
  of 
  peat, 
  a 
  congenial 
  soil 
  for 
  tarn- 
  

   ^y^ick, 
  spruce 
  and 
  cedar. 
  These 
  hidden 
  boulders 
  become 
  

   visible 
  when 
  a 
  fire 
  has 
  perchahce 
  attacked 
  the 
  drier 
  parts 
  m 
  

  

  luibu 
  wiin 
  iron-oxide 
  in 
  tne 
  vicinuy 
  oi 
  uienv^" 
  V 
  ^T, 
  

   , 
  . 
  --, 
  the 
  pines 
  predominate 
  on 
  the 
  sandy 
  soils 
  and 
  rocky 
  

   niiJs. 
  With 
  boulders 
  so 
  thickly 
  spread 
  in 
  many 
  places 
  that 
  

   ^^ey 
  may 
  serve 
  as 
  stepping-stones, 
  and 
  ledges 
  of 
  rock 
  out- 
  

  

  roppmg 
  on 
  every 
  hand, 
  it 
  will 
  pass 
  for 
  a 
  rugged 
  country, 
  

   "^uch 
  of 
  it 
  of 
  slight 
  use 
  to 
  agriculture, 
  and 
  of 
  litUe 
  attraction 
  

  

  "tne 
  eye 
  after 
  the 
  covering 
  of 
  timber 
  is 
  removed. 
  Ihere 
  

   f,"^^ 
  spots 
  by 
  the 
  lakes 
  and 
  Streams 
  fit 
  for 
  the 
  plow, 
  and 
  the 
  

  

  >mesteader" 
  is 
  already 
  there, 
  finding 
  a 
  f^dr 
  requital 
  or 
  

   2 
  '^bors 
  in 
  a 
  quick-growing 
  crop. 
  Some 
  of 
  the 
  wa 
  tei 
  

   lllT'.^^^'''^^^ 
  the 
  hills 
  are 
  marvels 
  of 
  stoniness, 
  a 
  length- 
  

   ''"ed 
  pile 
  of 
  boulders 
  of 
  all 
  shapes 
  and 
  sizes, 
  as 
  if 
  washed 
  out 
  

  

  