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A few springs will be sufficient to maintain t. 
lake of this character and the regular rains will provide for its 
overflow. In the case in question, several very cold springs feed 
i d a large one is located 
the lake at its southern extremity an la loca 
on its eastern bank, from which water is piped to the hotel and 
cottages. 
At the time of my visit, July 10-17, the shores of the lake were 
fringed with giant rhododendrons in the very pink of perfect 
b : : 
ition to the r nen ie mounian laurel, several 
‘acte 
es Pea of the chestnuts, which I had not enjoyed for 
The Tore floor about the margin of the lake, which is deeply 
ferns, 2) ceous flowering plants which should be visited 
veral times during on. Isa ves of many fine 
ae t the flowers had all disappeared. Lycopodium 
f the 
a profit usion near the large spring on the eastern side; 
while the red ee of the aia berry vine still clung to 
many stems of tl ver of the cold. By another 
spring nearer the hotel, I found ne white wood-sorrel, Oxalis 
Acetosella, in bloom just as I saw it there first twenty summers 
or more ago 
In this quiet, virgin forest the ee loved to gather, and most 
of them were apt to be found near the water about daybreak. 
Robins, thrushes, catbirds, crows, goldfinches, woodpeckers, 
nuthatches, chewinks, warblers, and juncos were much in evi- 
