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8. At St Ignace the ground is half bare & snow a foot deep in places. The snow increases to Trout Lake, where it becomes practically continuous and about a foot deep. Pure Canadian zone all the way north of the Strait. See lists of trees in note book. Country mainly flat & swampy occasionally high sharp ridges with some rocks. Dense swamps of cedar ([[underlined]] Libocedrus [[/underlined]]) Picea, Tamarack, birches, alders & willows. Extensive growth of young aspens over old burns. Three species of pine common in places where left by fire & ax. [[underlined]] P. strobus [[/underlined]], a long leaved, red backed pine - (P. resinosa?) and a little scrub like virginiana. No gray pine seen. Some sugar maple, elms & ash. Much open country, marsh, burnt swamp, & stumpy, brushy plain. Little lumber & mill towns all along. Not much farming. Some fields & grass lands No fruit trees.
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Vernon's c's look like e's, his e's look like i's without a dot on the top, lowercase s's can sometimes look like x's.