prepare for the habitation of animals and get animals, birds and insects around here but not in such profusion as is the land one left. The hills some distance away have a faint indi- cation of vegetation and upon inspection no plant is seen to be higher than 8 inches and usually these are grasses. Where plants are prolific crows and lickers predominate and at these many flowery plants occur. The greatest variety and abundance of plants are found in low and very wet places. Poppies appear to exist only in colder places and usually in northern exposures. Willows are very low in stature and at present are fruit bearing. They are easily recognized by the tufts of cotton like seed. Our ferns have already passed the flowering stage. A few species of flowers, one must hold a pencil, grow little more in small circular dome shaped clusters. The rocks are all of the crystalline series. The topography is very rugged but not high. Gray when the country shows ice action and upon all places looser rocks abound. But no clefts are visible with sharp corners all are rounded. A many small planed lakes nowhere is then much soil and what little