. The nascent forest of the Miscou Beach plain [microform]. Botany; Botanique. looft) FOKEST OF UlSCOf H where it is but a f-w yards wide, it rapidly > northward until it reaches Mune half a mile ;i ross, and ihen narr -wi» URain tuward-H its mtrthern end, which is also the Btty CAnitur northernmost p.»int ol ihi island. Though nearly level as a whole, .! is by no means t^at, for it is com. IK)8cd of a series of ap- proximately concentric dune beaches, which, two or three in numlK-rat Kel BnK)l(, in crease to over forty opposite Lac Krye. In height these du
. The nascent forest of the Miscou Beach plain [microform]. Botany; Botanique. looft) FOKEST OF UlSCOf H where it is but a f-w yards wide, it rapidly > northward until it reaches Mune half a mile ;i ross, and ihen narr -wi» URain tuward-H its mtrthern end, which is also the Btty CAnitur northernmost p.»int ol ihi island. Though nearly level as a whole, .! is by no means t^at, for it is com. IK)8cd of a series of ap- proximately concentric dune beaches, which, two or three in numlK-rat Kel BnK)l(, in crease to over forty opposite Lac Krye. In height these dune vary from tv;o to five or six or even seven feet (;') and in breadth from eight or ten up to forty or fifty paces. At iis widest part, wnich '•omprises s»)me thirty or more of the beaches, new ones are plainly being ra-^idly added, while at its nortnern end the entire plain is being washed away by the sea, which is cutting ;ly across the ends of the old Ijeachc Aiiout two-fifths of the plain, in- cluding the older parts n;xt the upland, are lorested; about two-fifths, incluriinjr, all the outer and parts, are open, i nly by the waving beach grass; the intermediate zone, a sr .11 one-fifth of the area of the plain, is a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ganong, William F. (William Francis), 1864-1941. [Chicago?] : University of Chicago Press
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