. The Arctic prairies, a canoe-journey of 2,000 miles in search of the caribou; being the account of a voyage to the region north of Aylmer Lake. Deer hunting. MY FARTHEST NORTH 241 great living rugs of strange textures and oriental tones; broad carpets there are of gray and green; long luxuri- ous lanes, with lilac mufflers under foot, great beds of a moss so yellow chrome, so spangled with intense red sprigs, that they might, in clumsy hands, look raw. There are knee-deep breadths of polytrichum, which blends in the denser shade into a moss of delicate crim- son plush that baffles descriptio
. The Arctic prairies, a canoe-journey of 2,000 miles in search of the caribou; being the account of a voyage to the region north of Aylmer Lake. Deer hunting. MY FARTHEST NORTH 241 great living rugs of strange textures and oriental tones; broad carpets there are of gray and green; long luxuri- ous lanes, with lilac mufflers under foot, great beds of a moss so yellow chrome, so spangled with intense red sprigs, that they might, in clumsy hands, look raw. There are knee-deep breadths of polytrichum, which blends in the denser shade into a moss of delicate crim- son plush that baffles description. Down between the broader masses are bronze-green growths that run over each slight dip and follow down. Lichens and moss forma the rock crannies like streams of molten brass. Thus the whole land is overlaid with a living, corrosive mantle of activities as varied as its hues. For ages these toil on, improving themselves, and improving the country by filing down the granite and strewing the dust around each rock. The frost, too, is at work, breaking up the granite lumps; on every ridge there is evidence of that—^low, rounded piles of stone which plainly are the remnants of a boulder, shattered by the cold. Thus, lichen, moss, and frost are toiling to grind the granite surfaces to dust. Much of this powdered rock is washed by rain into the lakes and ponds; in time these cut their exits. 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 Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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