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which will be published elsewhere. On a decayed chestnut log, 
I saw about forty pounds of excellent food going to waste i in 
0. po. 
several beautiful clusters on the top of the is 
pace will not permit me to describe the Cascade, five miles to 
h 
precipice ninety feet in height; nor many other interesting places 
in this remarkable region. I simply wish to mention, in closing, 
o New 
and leathery when old. It is said that arctic explorers have 
sometimes eaten them instead of shoe leather and thus prolonged 
their miserable lives. 
verhanging one of these sandstone rocks in a very graceful 
way was a clump of the purple flowering raspberry, or thimble- 
ne pd pier noe abundantly at the Cascade, while a few 
and the tall, stiff stems of Campanula americ n- 
ally iced, bearing large blue, bell-shaped flowers fastened 
rather clo: ely to the s This sessile character ra c- 
virginiana, the wild geranium, the yel lue- 
d grass, and Tradescantia virginica, or day-flower. 
It was interesting to note also the influx of certain asl 
along the approaches to this mountain paradise. A weed has 
for a lon iia been defined as “ . out of sea but a 
rds to the k de a wil an fall 
nto this category. It is one of the hawkweeds, and I was sorry 
to see it getting a footh t Mountain Lak he orange 
eaege id not see there, al m venos: 
co: 
od fadhy: be ee a ace when found in its native haunts. 
