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varying heiglits, and wild tracts of country arc 
covered witli high rank grass, scrub, and masses of 
fine trees. The most conspicuous trees are conifers, 
pines, yews, ■and junipers. A kind of dogwood is 
common, and I observe a beech, an oak, and a 
species of Euonymus. The aster and pink, a small 
"entian, the Flower of Yarrow and St. John’s- wort, 
a species of Ribes, and the pretty white-flowered 
Grass of Parnassus, are among the common plants. 
A dark Marchantia covers the ground in damp 
places, in which also a Lycopodium is conspicuous. 
Of ferns I gathered a species of Pteris and a Poly- 
stichum. 
As we landed in a shallow bight of the splendid 
bay, we observed the duck family in full feather. 
The pretty golden-eye was swimming and diving 
near the shore, or indulging in little playful flights 
on and off the land ; elegant long-tailed ducks were 
flying wildly and uttering loud cries ; whistling 
widgeons were passing by in tTvos and threes ; and 
conspicuous in the bustling noisy crowd Avere the 
beautiful shieldrake and the solitary shoveller. 
