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one's left when going west, the ground is clear, and on it 

 is built the lumbermen's shanties. On the right are hills 

 that are thickly covered with forest of a virgin growth, 

 having evidently been denuded of their timber in years 

 gone past. The lumber is at the present time obtained 

 some distance further up the Eiver Eouge. Having 

 arrived opposite the settlement, the party quickly disem- 

 barked, the cars returning to Calumet station, there to be 

 side-tracked till the return. 



At this point Mr. J. Stevenson Brown detailed to the 

 party the programme arranged for the day ; three parties 

 would be formed of those willing to join for the purpose 

 of hunting for geological, botanical and entomological 

 specimens respectively. On behalf of the Hon. J. K. 

 Ward, he also invited the party to a lunch of lumbermen's 

 fare at the shanty, which was then ready. Acting upon 

 the latter suggestion, most of the party adjourned to the 

 shanty to partake of cold boiled pork, pea soup, boiled 

 beans, bread and butter, all served up in lumbermen's 

 ware, and green tea without milk or sugar, which was 

 drunk out of tin pannikins. If the fare was plainer than 

 that to which some of the guests were used, it was good 

 and wholesome, and great inroads were made upon it 

 by those whose appetites were sharp set. After lunch 

 the exploring parties assembled and went off on their 

 respective quests, the remainder of the guests taking 

 walks through the woods or by the river side to watch the 

 progress of the large logs that are brought down by 

 the swift river current from above. The sun was found 

 to be quite hot, hotter by far than on any previous day of 

 this year, and the shade of the trees was much appre- 

 ciated. The insects of the species that regarded the 

 visitors in the light of so many edibles held a picnic 

 on their own account, as the faces and hands of many of 

 the guests soon bore witness. The mosquitoes especially 

 must have enjoyed a course of city people after the hard- 



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