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BL? . Notice of the Peninsula of Michigan. 
On the Huron and Raisin there is much good land, and nu- 
merous settlements. 
But a small part of the course of the Maumee is in Michi- 
gan. It passes through a rich, but usually unhealthy region. 
Between the Maumee and Sandusky Bay, is located one of the 
most extensive swamps of the western country. “The cli- 
mate of the Peninsula is afiected by contiguous deep water, 
and the little elevation of the country. ‘The autumn is usual- 
ly exempted from frost until a late period, the air being 
tempered by the warm vapours from the lakes. The weather 
in winter is variable ; snow rarely continaes long; spring is 
often protracted, and frosts occur until May, resulting from 
the cold water of the lakes, and ice ou their borders. 
In forests situate on low and generally wet ground, elm, 
sycamore, white oak, bass, and maple, are the predominant 
trees. 
On drier rich soil, hickory, black walnut, butternut, ash, 
and varieties of oak, are common. Chestnut is of rare oc- 
currence. 
In the colder districts adjacent to Lake Huron, the ever- 
greens, white pine, hemlock, and spruce, are mingled with hard 
maple, beech, oak, and other trees of annual verdure: the 
land in this section is said to be generally good, though better 
adapted for grazing than grain. 
Upon the Saganaw and its branches, and in the county of 
t. Clair, are many valuable forests of white pine. This tree 
is rarely seen in the Peninsula, except in the northern sec- 
tion. tis the predominant timber in extensive tracts of Up- 
er Canada. In Ohio there is scarcely a single grove of 
white pine. Yellow pine is rare in Michigan. It occurs 
most frequently in the southern part. ‘lamerisk is seen in 
many of the interior swamps. Dwarf willows are often met 
with, and are considered an indication of good soil. ‘The cli- 
mate and soil are favourable to the growth of apple, pear, 
peach, and many other fruit-trees. 
Of shrubs, the hazlenut, whortleberry, black, and raspberry, 
are common. 
The plants appear to be much the same as those that grow 
on sandy soils in the New England states. Numerous spe- 
cies of the genera, aster and solidago, many of the gentians, 
cleome dodecandra, liatris scariosa, the buffalo clover, the 
common species of geranium, pedicularis pallida, euphorbia 
