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Weather fine, auroral arch last night very brilliant and extensive.
*** At 2 P.M. landed at Eagle River, a small town from which next to Ontonagon the most copper is shipped. Probably named because the river is so small that it requires an eagle eye to see it. ***

3 o'clock P.M. arrived at Eagle Harbor, spent some time in efforts to reach the dock, though the water was entirely calm.

At 5 P.M. entered Copper Harbor, which is well secured, by a trap dyke, from storms on the lake. A small place.

Sept. 20 Stopped at Portage Lake in the night and this morning at nine o'clock arrived at Marquette. **

Dr. A.H. Jones gave me a skull of a beaver.

A warm south wind was blowing this morning and continued until noon, when it suddenly changed to north-west and became very cold. ***
Remained at Marquette all day.

Sept. 21 Left Marquette at 2 A.M. in a N.W. blow!

The steamer "City of Cleveland" in the afternoon returned to port, in consequence of the blow! Blow continued until noon when we rounded White Fish Point. At 3 1/2 passed the locks at Sault ste Marie.

The sandstone at Sault ste Marie is both red and gray and thin-bedded like that at Dells of the Wisconsin River. Is there anything in this structure that gives origin to Rapids and Dells?

While going from the Ontonagon river in a boat (Sept. 18th) I observed the white cedar trees very numerous along the banks and all of them with about 1/3 of the foliage killed, giving the trees a spotted appearance as seen from a distance, Was this caused by a frost? I had no opportunity to examine the dead