Only, Those Vegetations Here Are Willow, Dwarf Birch,
Tiny Spruce, And Ledum, And The Country As A Whole Is Far Too Green
And Rich.
The emerald verdure of the shore, in not a few places,
carried me back, to the west coast of Ireland.
CHAPTER XXXIII
THE UNKNOWN
The daily observations of route and landmark I can best leave
for record on my maps. I had one great complaint against previous
explorers (except Tyrrell); that is, they left no monuments. Aiming
to give no ground of complaint against us, we made monuments at
all important points. On the, night of August 8 we camped at Cairn
Bay on the west side of Casba Lake, so named because of the five
remarkable glacial cairns or conical stone-piles about it. On the
top of one of these I left a monument, a six-foot pillar of large
stones.
On the afternoon of August 9 we passed the important headland that
I have called "Tyrrell Point." Here we jumped off his map into
the unknown. I had, of course, the small chart drawn by Sir George
Back in 1834, but it was hastily made under great difficulties,
and, with a few exceptions, it seemed impossible to recognize his
landscape features. Next day I explored the east arm of Clinton-Colden
and discovered the tributary that I have called "Laurier River,"
and near its mouth made a cairn enclosing a Caribou antler with
inscription "E. T. Seton, 10 Aug., 1907."
Future travellers on this lake will find, as I did, that the
Conical Butte in the eastern part is an important landmark.
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