in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

PREFACE.

THE main object of the excursion, the results of which are given in the following pages, was a purely scientific one, viz. the study of the Natural History of the northern shore of Lake Superior. Another end proposed by Professor Agassiz, was, to afford to those of the party who were unaccustomed to the practical investigation of natural phenomena, an opportunity of exercising themselves under his direction.

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The party was composed of the following gentlemen : Prof. Agassiz and Dr. William Kelle in tructors, and Messrs. George Belknap and C dents, of the Lawrence Scientific McC. Lea, George H. Timmi.

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rs. James Jompkins,

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of the Dane Law School; Mess
Charles G. Loring, Jonathan C ne, and Jefferson
Wiley, of the senior class of Hai.ard College; Messrs.
Joseph P. Gardner and J. Elliot Cabot, of Boston; Drs.
John L. Le Conte and Arthur Stout, of New York; and
M. Jules Marcou, of Paris.

Interspersed throughout the Narrative are reports, carefully made at the time, of the Professor's remarks on various points of Natural History, that seemed to him