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3 oddly commingled on good rising glacial ground. The Sound is fairly dotted with islands some of them more rocks tufter
with Couifers, Merizies Spruce Hemlock Cypress. The green damp crowded leafy luxuriance of the woods on the level bottoms
of the main island is is indescribably extravagant. Generation after generation of trees fall upon one another waste to humus
until moss logs leaves form a grass ten of twelve feet thick upon which the present forest is growing. In many places not
a root of trees even 150 ft high touches the ground illegible I mean. They are growing on a tangle of mossy decayed decaying
spongy logs the constant wetness preventing fires. I noticed four trees today growing astride a prostrate trunk that again
on others now decayed. A section cut near the shore through the mass of roots logs humus for a fishing station made some strange
developments. Dead stumps 75 ft high accumulate wet massy cushions of moss, polypod illegible find their way up there flourish
on them so do young hemlocks spruces, making green lively gardens in the air. The direction of the flow of the ice that
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