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Crossed the Narrows of Devils Lake, then the Military Wood Reserve, to the Chautauqua Grounds & Biological Laboratory. Here we met Yawel Brawar & Tufty & saw Dr. Grassick of Grand Forks.

The Wood Reserve & Chautauqua Grands occupy the Peninsula, a timbered strip running nearly across the lake and including 1100 acres of woods. This is untouched forest of large old elms & oaks & ash & boxelder. Groves of Aspens grow in springy places. This forest is the only one I have seen that has not been cut or burnt & the trees are old & large, but not very high. Elms 4 feet in diameter are not over 50 or 60 feet I should judge. A tangle of grape, Ampelopsis, Celastris & hop vines on the shrubbery makes a very dense undergrowth. 

The place would make a fine deer & elk park if fenced & could be used for the purpose as it is now held as a Militia reserve.

Sully Hill is also a park of