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Quebec. We were now entering a great wilderness. The St. 

 John rix'er valley' is cleared up to St. Francis and there is one 

 village, Allegash Plantation, fifteen miles above St. Francis ; out- 

 side of the St. John valley proper one may go from twenty-five 

 to two hundred miles to the nearest house. 



On the St. Francis, at the foot of Glazier Lake, there are two 

 or three farms, at the head of the lake two more ; ten miles up the 

 river, at the head of Beau Lac, are three more settlers ; and 

 thence twenty-five miles to Boundary Lake are no settlers. Most 

 of the settlers, both on the St. Francis and the St. John, have 

 come in since Pringle's time. 



By our landing at Glazier Lake was plenty of Sa/ix lucida 

 iiitonsa Fernald. This salix would be easily mistaken for a 

 very large Salix ca)idida Willd. On the Maine side is the t}-pe 

 station for Carcx iiitiimcsccns Fcrnahh Bailey ; here also we saw 

 Carcx atratifoniiis Britton, four feet high. 



We left Glazier Lake at noon, making Glazier Lake, Cross 

 Lake and Cross Lake Rapids before supper, paddling up the six 

 miles of Beau Lac and reaching the head of the lake after dark. 

 We pitched our tent on the sands, rolled up in our blankets, 

 and most of us went to sleep, but the greenhorn, wedged in be- 

 tween friend and guide, found a hole and hummock that would 

 not let him sleep. The next day at noon we were at the foot of 

 the Kelly Rapids, which are three miles long and full of boulders. 

 The guide gave us an invitation to walk ; we accepted and bota- 

 nized the Maine shore to the head of the rapids, finding great 

 quantities of Pcrammm opliioidcs (Fernald) Rydb., P. tcsscUatum 

 (Lodd.) Rydb., Lysiclla obtusata (Pursh) Rydb., Zj'.ymj' orhiculata 

 (Pursh) Rydb., llypopitys Hypopitys (L.) Small, Pctasitcs palmata 

 (Ait.) A. Gray and my first Listcra auriculata Wiegand. 



We camped early this night, pitching our tent on the Quebec 

 shore in a thicket of evergreens. 



The next morning all about our camp we found fyro/a asari- 

 folia Michx. and /'. iiiiiior L. and in a spring bog Listcra auricu- 

 lata Wiegand (in flower). 



On a Maine blueberry barren we found Pyrola rotundifolia 

 L., Aster junccus Ait., and great quantities of Vacciniuin Cana- 



