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NOETH AMEEICAX FAUXA. 



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back to the base of Grizzly Bear Mountain. The akitude of this 

 mountain has been estimated at 900 feet, and several hundred. feet of 

 its upper portion is devoid of timber. ExtensiA'e areas on the wooded 

 slopes, appearing gray in the distance, showed the destructive effects 

 of forest fires. 



On September 11 we voyaged westward along a low. rocky shore. 

 Some spurs of the mountain, which gradually become lower to the 

 westward, approach nearly to the shore. A nearer view showed that 

 the fire-swept areas were covered with willows and other shrubs 

 whose magnificently tinted autmmi ^foliage, with its endless variety 

 of yellow, red, and green, combined to form a beautiful eli'ect. Dur- 

 ing the forenoon we passed some high clay banks, and in the after- 

 noon paddled along the borders of a broad, shallow bay whose .shore- 

 were formed partly by high sandy banks holding in places a -earn nf 

 what appeared to be lignite. We encamped in a small -andy bay 

 where the foothills approach within a mile or two of the shore. Dur- 

 ing the following day, on account of high winds, we advanced only 

 a few miles, and encamped on the borders of a shallow bay just west 

 of a long, low rocky j^oint. The shores here are mainly composed of 

 limestone, the first we had seen smce leaving the vicinity of Fort Eae. 



On September 13 we paddled along a rather low coa.st. pa--nig 

 a number of shallow bays, and at noon rounded a long we-terly 

 point and entered a bay which makes in toward the east. It is 

 bounded on the south by sandy shores and a low. narrow, finely 

 wooded flat (see PL XVII, fig. 2), behind which rises a low ridge 

 thickly clothed with shrubs. Beyond here we j^assed several -mall 

 bays. On one of these bays was the camp of a family of Indians, 

 the first humans we had seen since leaving lower Grandin Eiver. -ix 

 weeks before. We encamped that night in a broad bay with low 

 shores. 



On September ll we continued southwestward along the coast, 

 but were delayed several hours in the middle of the day by high wind-. 

 We passed several large and small bays with low sandy shores, and 

 a long, bare, gravelly point covered with quantities of small bowlders 

 pushed up by the ice. The forest was composed largely of tamarack, 

 whose foliage, now turned yellow, made quite an impress on the 

 scenery. About miclafternoon the Manito Islands appeared in sight. 



The next day, September 15. we passed one or two points and 

 reached the deep bay at the base of the Grizzly Bear Mountain penin- 

 sula. We paddled across the mouth of this bay. about l mile-, in a 

 dead calm. Midway of the traver.-e we passed a bar where the water 

 was only 12 or 15 feet deep and could see ninnbers of large lalvC 

 trout idly swimming about near the gravelly bottom. A few miles 

 beyond, about the middle of the day, we passed the ]\Ianito Islands, 

 which lie farther to the east than is represented on most maps. They 



