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the Great Lakes having been measured more accurately, 

 since they are much more distinct than those on the 

 coast. But on my return after this experience with 

 Labrador raised beaches, it was easy to detect them in 

 the vicinity of Salem, Lynn, Chelsea, and Boston, as well 

 as on the Maine coast, though on the New England 

 shores they are difficult to distinguish on account of the 

 vegetable growth and forests which conceal them and 

 prevent their ready recognition. 



Huge bowlders of syenite, some oval and very round, 

 were scattered about on shore, the smaller ones well 

 rounded by the waves, while the bottom of the harbor is 

 paved with cobble-stones, as we ascertained by dredging. 

 The summits of the hills surrounding the harbor were 

 formed of a pale, whitish, foliated syenite, with scattered 

 specks of hornblende, while lower down on the sides 

 the rock was a very dark gneiss, slightly porphyritic. I 

 found here a dwarf willow new to me, the flowers purple, 

 of nearly the same tint as the flowers of the cloud-berry. 

 A species of field-mouse, which we failed to capture, was 

 common here, its nests lined with mouse-colored fur. 



The head of the harbor was said to be haunted by a 

 ghost ; we did not attempt to secure it or to lay it, but 

 a more substantial, though still a fleeting treasure, 

 was the huge, glacier-like snow-banks in the vicinity 

 of the haunted spot, which were perhaps 20 feet thick, 

 very hard on the surface, and much soiled : too hard, per- 

 haps, to retain even the traces of the footprints of a Lab- 

 rador spirit — whose tread, judging bv the average Labra- 

 dorian, must have been a firm one. One of the banks 

 appeared to have slidden into tlie water, and from its 

 edge a miniature berg had broken off and was floating 



