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striking, growing as they did by themselves in the stony wilder- 
ness of the moraine. 
The return voyage is rather an anti-climax, as the scenery 
grows less impressive as we go southward. The last day of 
the voyage, however, afforded us one more impression to carry 
away. Going north, we had missed the fine view of Mt. Baker, 
off Victoria. This is the most northerly of the group of snow 
peaks to be seen from Puget Sound. As we approached Vic- 
toria late in the afternoon, we saw far away to the southeast 
the perfectly symmetrical cone, standing quite alone and re- 
flecting the afternoon sunshine from its smooth slopes, and ris- 
ing apparently directly from the sea. Two years before I had 
seen this mountain under similar conditions as we sailed out of 
Victoria, bound for Japan; and one who has seen the peak of 
Fuji Yama, on. the other side of the Pacific, must be struck 
with the resemblance between the two mountains. As the 
light faded on the slopes of Baker we sailed into Victoria and 
our voyage was over. 
As might be expected from its position, the flora of mari- 
time Alaska combines characters both American and Asiatic. 
While many of the plants were the common sub-arctic types, 
some like Pinus contorta and Tsuga mertensiana are distinctly 
American; while, on the other hand, Picea litchensis is found 
on the northern Pacific coasts of both Asia and America, and 
a number of the herbaceous plants, ¢.g., Lysichiton, Fritillaria, 
Trientalis europea, Blechnum spicant, are probably all immi- 
grants from Asia. The continuous chain of the Aleutian 
Islands connecting the two continents makes the presence of 
these Oriental immigrants readily understood. 
