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‘o the modern Lake Michigan. These ridges are broad and flat 
drops eas Dain may be oe and there the 
es st shows an admixture of pine and balsa 
Behind this. series of ridges, at what was fences the shore of 
Lake Nipissing, lies a series of high sand dunes, formed by the 
waters of ee pEeHietarie lake, and far exceeding ane ne of 
the present lake in size. Completely invisible ata 
throu agh. me “dense forest of arbor-vitae, they give the explorer 
adi when he suddenly re as nies a sue pak 
and the surprise is heightened when t o be 
a hundred feet high 
On the slope of the dune the vegetation changes acne 
to the familiar aspen thickets, underlaid with bracken fern and 
there is a complex of dunes before ins all with precipitous slopes, 
the whole scene gives a charming picture of ve getation in its 
virgin state, and one which can pee be matched at the 
Michigan. This pcint has been built up re the well-known 
n tag 
t one point waves have until recently flowed analy across 
the point. Here sand deposits have isolated a shallow beach 
