Notes on the Pteridophytes of the north shore 



of Lake Superior 



O. E. JENNINGS 



It was with feelings of great expectation that the writer 

 stepped out upon the deck of the "Assiniboia" early in 

 the morning of June 17, 1912. The steamer was bound 

 westward and through the cold driving rain and fog 

 could be gotten occasional glimpses of Pie Island to the 

 left and, close by on the right, the towering form of the 

 Sleeping Giant — the Gibraltar that guards the entrance 

 to Thunder Bay in the northwestern part of Lake 

 Superior. 



Arrived at Fort William, a thriving port on the western 

 shore of Thunder Bay, about twenty miles across from 

 the Sleeping Giant, my friend, Mr. R. H. Daily, and I 

 soon established our headquarters in a small hotel and 

 early in the afternoon started out for Mount McKay, a 

 rather flat-topped, but precipitous mountain rising to a 

 height of about one thousand feet above the level of 

 Lake Superior and situated about four miles south of 

 the town. 



Thus began a delightful, and at times rather exciting, 

 collecting trip of three months in the region extending 

 along the north shore of Lake Superior from the vicinity 

 of Fort William in the west to Heron Bay in the east, a 

 range of about two hundred miles. The main stops were 

 made at Fort William, Nepigon, Rossport, Jackfish, and 

 Heron Bay, all on the main line of the Canadian Pacific, 

 while other stops were made on Thunder Cape and St. 

 Ignace Island, out in the Lake, and excursions pene- 

 trated the interior as far as Kakabeka Falls about twenty 

 miles west of Fort William and Lake Jessie about twenty 



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