AMERICAN HARBOR, OR NATASHQUAN 



although my own feelings and amount of per- 

 spiration suggested at least 80°, I found it to 

 be only 58°. In walking over the wetter part 

 of these plains one chooses with care the more 

 solid-looking places. I have often been re- 

 minded of the juvenile sport of "running 

 tittledies" over weak ice. One of Audubon's 

 young men was once mired to his armpits and 

 had to be pulled out, but he must have been 

 careless or perhaps over-venturesome in re- 

 trieving a bird. Using due care and sufficient 

 agility one need have no fear of trouble in 

 these bogs. 



"Heavy the way over Gangle bogs, 

 God keep him who has to tread it!" 



The vegetation of the bogs consists in large 

 part of sphagnum and other mosses, of rein- 

 deer lichen, cotton-grass, sundew, pitcher-plant, 

 bake-apple, pale laurel, Labrador-tea, sweet- 

 gale, leatherleaf, and dwarf black spruces, firs, 

 and larches. 



As I had promised to collect spiders for my 

 friend Mr. J. H. Emerton, an authority in 

 that branch of natural history, I always went 

 provided with bottles of alcohol. Spider-hunt- 

 ing in this region is rather trying work, for 



