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ton. On the nt'xt cla\', July 6, we drove across New Brunswick 

 to Alatapedia and alon^ the south side of Ciaspe, to New Rich- 

 mond. On the 7th, we entered the mountains, with a party of 

 five guides, headed by the silent but competent Stillman Harri- 

 son. Our arrangements for camping, shelter and food had been 

 efficiently made by Dudley Dimock, of New Richmond. We 

 were particularly pleased with our cook. Earl Budd, an old army 

 cook, whose good food, and good nature were among the high 

 lights of the trip. 



We drove in along the road on the east side of the Grand 

 Cascapedia, which some of us had followed before, 49 miles to 

 the Federal Lead and Zinc Mine, where we left the cars. Har- 

 rison had been in a few days ahead, with his men and horses 

 and wagon and had established a camp for us on the south side 

 of Tabletop Mountain, our objective for this part of the trip. 

 In the afternoon, we walked in, somewhat wetted by a shower, 

 to Lake St. Anne. Those of us who were there before, when we 

 found it a lonely place, inhabited only by screeching loons, were 

 surprised to find a party of French -Canadians building a large 

 log cabin. Their boss proved to be AL Ernest Menard, Inspec- 

 tor-General of Fish and Game for the Quebec Department of 

 Forests, and Superintendent of the new Gaspesia National 

 Park, then being surveyed. He was building the cabin to be used 

 first for the surveying party, and later as a rangers' cabin. He 

 insisted on giving up his tent to the ladies of our party, as we 

 were short one tent, others being at our base camp. He showed 

 us the survey maps, indicating that the new Park will include 

 Mount Albert, Tabletop, the Gorge of the St. Anne River, and 

 Lakes St. Anne and Madeleine, about 250,000 acres. It will be a 

 plant and animal sanctuary, intended, for one thing, to protect 

 the caribou, the only herd south of the St. Lawrence. He was 

 much pleased to see that we were using to identify plants. Pro- 

 fessor Marie-Victorin's "Flore Laurentienne," and some of his 

 separate monographs on various groups of plants. He told us 

 that the Quebec Department of Education had given over 1000 

 copies of the "Flore" to students in secondary schools and col- 

 leges as prizes for proficiency in botany, and that his own 

 daughter had won one of them. We also met an interesting per- 

 son, Capt. Samuel Cote, who was the guide of Professors Fern- 

 aid and Collins, on their Harvard expeditions years before and 



