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the opposite or eastern side was in many places 
not a quarter so high. Indeed, in every part of 
this chasm that I examined, the western side was 
the highest and quite perpendicular, the opposite 
one very considerably less in its elevation and 
leaning outward, so that a section of the chasm 
would represent the annexed figure. 
Among the rocks grew, rather plentifully, Po¬ 
lypodium hyperboreum , and a species which 
appeared to me new, but of which I do not 
sufficiently recollect the characters to attempt a 
description of it. On climbing the eastern cliff, 
and descending on the grassy surface to the mar¬ 
gin of the lake, I found, but sparingly, Isoetes 
lacustris. As nothing more remarkable invited 
me to proceed in a southern direction in the 
