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report of Capt. Cram. "The water of these small reservoirs and of the streams generally is cold and limpid; some of the lakes were observed to contain the speckled trout-such as are generally met with in high latitudes in the United States. The scenery of these lakes is beautiful, and the land adjacent to them is better than is generally believed by those who have not had an opportunity of personal examination. The country is not montainous but may be denomonated "rolling". The growth of timber is tolerably heavy, consisting of white and yellow pine on the borders of the lakes; in some instances of cedar, fir, hemlock, and tamarack; and a little back of the Lakes, of Sugar maple, white maple, white and yellow birch, poplar, bass, and hemlock. The soil is of a nature to be adapted to the culture of wheat, rye, grass, oats, flax, hemp, and potatoes. In some places the soil is rocky, although no very large masses or ledges of rock were observed.-The manufacture of maple sugar is carried on to a considerable extent by the purpose [Indians] of this region. Many of their "Sugar bushes" were observed, and from the oldness of the marks upon