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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