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Flora. 
The mountain is well wooded on the sides and at the base. A great 
deal of lumbering has bfn done^round it, but lumbermen say that as 
soon as one begins to ascend the timber is not so good. The principal 
growth is spruce,- This is mixed with fir, some birch and other trees, 
As one ascends, the spruce gradually gives way to.fir which growa 
smaller ana smaller till it dwindles away to a little sprawling ever¬ 
green that one walks over as he would boughs lying on the ground. On 
the top of the mountain in the valleys is what is known as “scrub! 1 
This consists bf fir growth about four feet high and three aw 
io six inches in diameter at the base. It is generally partially dead 
at the top, standi A close together as it can grow/, ana has its/scraggly 
branches woven together so as to form an almost impenetrable barrier, 
One could scarcely penetrate a mile of it in a day. A section through- 
one of these trees,—if they can be called trees,—about six inches 
in diameter, showed over one hundred rings so narrow that they could, 
with difficulty be counted, the wood was very hard and everything 
hoi’s evidence of its slow growth. In one place on a smooth slope, 
firs about four feet high were growing snug together like a hedge, and 
so thickly were the branches intermingled that one of the party lay 
down and rolled over and over on the top for \two or three rods, 
without breaking through. All vegetation hugs the ground. Willows 
spread out on the rocks and run along like creepers. Nothing rises 
higher than a few inches. Plants blossom with a half-inch oH stem, 
