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[[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.