and fruit; momitain ash and elder, with red, dustered 

 berries; viburnums tliat would grace the finest pleasure 

 g-round; dogwoods of nortliern species; sumach, beauti- 

 ful at every leafy season; blueberries in tlie open, rocky 

 places; wild roses by the streams and roadsides; black- 

 berries with splendid flowering stems; witch hazel with 

 its strange autumnal bloom ; rhodora, sj^reading out great 

 sheets of pink in spring upon the peaty marshlands, min- 

 gled with the fragrant labrador tea; brilliant-berried 

 ilexes, sold in the cities at Christmas time for holly ; and 

 a host of others. 



No inch of ground, in sun or shade, is left unoccu- 

 pied. The very rocks are lichen-clad and ferns mat over 

 them in shady places. Trilliums and wild orchids bloom 

 in the forest depths, with white-flowered hobble-bushes ; 

 clintonias and the fragrant northern twin-flower that 

 Linnaeus loved extend themselves as in wild garden beds 

 upon the woodland floor. 



Everywhere there is life, spreading mats of crowberry 

 and the beautiful coast juniper where they are deluged 

 by the ocean spray in winter storms ; clothing wind-swept 

 granite heights, wherever there is crack or cranny soil 

 can gather in, with ])artridge-berry, blueberry, and 

 mountain cranberry ; penetrating the forest shade and 

 profiting by the dense northern covering of leafy humus 

 that it finds there; and rich, wherever nature has not 

 been disturbed, in infinite variety — of mosses, fungus 

 growths and ferns as well as flowering plants. Few 

 forests in the w^orld, indeed, outside the rainy tropics, 

 clothe tliemselves with such abundant life, and there are 

 none that bring one more directly into touch w^ith nature, 

 its wildness and its charm. 



''Whilst we folloived on our course, there came from the land odors 

 incomparable for sweetness, brought with a warm wind so ahundajitly 

 that all the Orient parts could not produce the like. We did stretch out 

 our hands, as it were, to take them, so palpable ivere they, which I 

 have admired a thousand time since.'' 



Marc Lescakbot. 1609. 



Purchas translation. 



