Lake Superior : Its Physical Character, Vegetation, and Animals Compared with Those of Other and Similar Regions (Paperback)

Preface; Part I. Narrative: 1. Boston to the Sault de St. Marie; 2. The Sault to Fort William; 3. Fort William back to the Sault; 4. From the Sault homewards; Part II. Natural History: 1. The northern vegetation compared with that of the Jura and the Alps; 2. Observations on the vegetation of the northern shores of Lake Superior; 3. Classification of animals from embryonic and palaeozoic data; 4. General remarks upon the coleoptera of Lake Superior John L. Leconte; 5. Catalogue of shells, with descriptions of new species A. A. Gould; 6. Fishes of Lake Superior compared with those of the other great Canadian Lakes; 7. Description of some new species of reptiles from the region of Lake Superior; 8. Report on the birds collected and observed at Lake Superior J. E. Cabot; 9. Descriptions of some species of lepidoptera, from the northern shores of Lake Superior T. W. Harris; 10. The erratic phenomena about Lake Superior; 11. The outlines of Lake Superior; 12. Geological relations of the various copper deposits of Lake Superior.