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to the south of the extremely irregular northern coast. 
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marack, yellow birch, and white birch. We saw no oaks, 
the landscape. As one proceeds by rail across i practically 
unsettled interior, trees and forests an still found, especially 
about the numerous lakes, but the trees are mostly rather smal 
and often scattered. Large tracts : Gn thin coniferous forest 
for a week at the village of Topsail, on Conception Bay, and 
another week at the village of Torbay, about seven miles north 
of St. n’s. 
The se from the United States is impressed by the fact 
that the berries of’ several plants scarcely known in that connec- 
mountain cranberry, there commonly known as the partridge- 
berry, which is gathered in large quantities. A third is Viburuum 
