Splendid spruce trees just round the camp growing scatteringly & with green sward between them. The dampness of the climate here also causes all sorts of vegetation to be exceedingly luxuriant. Rocks clad with moss as well as trunks of trees. Dead branches full of bright yellow & black lichen (see specimens). A pretty, noisy brook racing over clean pebbles of red slate formed excellent place for washing & toilet. Its banks gay with flowers of all sorts & green with moss. Large patches of snow in the hollow at foot of steep hill & only a few hundred yards from the Camp. Camp called by old Survey ìCamp Akaminaî a name obtained from the indians.

Geol. Four miles up the valley from the forks camp the valley is blocked by a series of very evident & perfect moraine mounds. Traces extend for nearly a mile. Those lowest down the valley have been much modified by water & are merely steep rounded Knolls. Those last left by the glacier still retain their abrupt ridge like form & are concave toward glacier side. These no doubt at one time dammed up a lake, but the stream has now cut completely through them. Where a small lateral valley joins in a straight-edged ridge has been produced by the interference of the lateral glacier subsequent to retreat of main one.

About 5 miles up the valley observed reddish & bluish-grey sandstones & slates dipping