Note 58 — PETER KALM’s TRAVELS. (continued 2)

We climbed with a great deal of difficulty to the top of one of the highest mountains here, and I was vexed to find nothing at its summit, but what I had seen in other parts of Canada before. We had not even the pleasure of a prospect, because the trees, with which the mountain is covered, obstructed it. The trees that grow here are a kind of hornbeam, or Carpinus Ostrya, Linn. the American elm, the red maple, the sugar-maple, that kind of maple which cures scorched wounds (which I have not yet described), the beech, the common birch-tree, the sugar-birch58, the sorb-tree, the Canada pine, called Perusse, the mealy-tree with dentated leaves59, the ash, the cherry-tree, (Cerisier) just before described, and the berry-bearing yew.