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7. [[underlined]] March 25. [[/underlined]] Monday. Daylight at Rondo. Clear & crisp with heavy frost and particles of snow on cold slopes. Mainly Canadian zone from Rondo to [[Madeivans?]]. Only 2 or 3 red oak bushes seen. Lots of aspen & birch & alder. Tamarac & spruces & libocedrus in swamps. Some scattered hemlock & white pine & lots of old pine stumps. A few elms & black ash. A few red backed, long leaved pines, probably [[underlined]] Pinus resinosa [[/underlined]]. No sign of spring green yet. Many grass fields & some plowed ground. Not much farming. Mainly lumber. One meadow lark & lots of crows. Breakfast at Mackinaw & then our train ran onto the ferry boat & we plowed across the still frozen strait [[strikethrough]] ght [[/strikethrough]] to St. Ignace. A channel is kept broken up in the ice but about half way is full of floating cakes a foot thick. The rest of way it is kept clear by wind. The cakes freeze together & have to be smashed up every trip.