Editor's Note:
Schoolcraft spent the day exploring the rocky point and recorded, "Detained by unfavourable winds. The shore of the lake is strewed with water worn masses of rocks of the same kinds already mentioned, and we still find granite and hornblende to predominate. No rock has, however, yet appeared in situ. The lands adjoining our encampment, are generally low and swampy, and the forest consists of hemlock, birch, ash, oak, and some maple. Among the plants the convallaria augustifolia, and a species of Indian Brassica, have been noticed. The margin of the lake is skirted with bull-rushes, quake grass, (briza canadensis,) and other aquatic plants. The greatest observed heat of the air has been 53°, wind N. E."
Location: near modern Port Hope, Mich.
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In the middle of the night a heavy wind arose which has continued all this day from the N. E. The swells & wind were so powerful that it was impossible to get out. Several vessels passed the point on which we were encamped, apparently in distress. The land back from this point is low and marshy, and too sterile for cultivation. Took a specimen of Black mica I found on this point.
