Field notes: Eastern United States trip, book 1, v4545
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June 7 - Is Winnipeg 6:30 p.m. - At Lake of the Woods. Country consists of glacier-scoured rock ridges, with intervening depress occupied by boggy meadows or else lakes, very many of the latter. The general ground surface is flat, and the greatest heights above the lakes can't be more than 150 feet. The air is distinctly sharp in the shade - Canadian-zone summer temperature. There is much fore whenever the rocks and lakes permit but this forest is very short, ofen of dwarf-sized trees for great areas. There are a good many burned areas, with close stand of dead snags and dense new growth coming up. The light, almost yellow, green of the bursting deciduous growth contrasts strikingly with the