Ontario, quite sea-like. Decidedly more level west of London, and wet,—but probably rich. Great ferns with bulrush (?); wild fowl east of Lake St. Clair; of which a long and fine view on each side of the Thames. Crossing, saw about Thamesville a small plump bird,—red head and blackish or bluish back and wings, but with broad white on the rounded wing and tail. Probably the red-headed woodpecker.
May 21. Detroit to Chicago. Very level to Ypsilanti, then hilly to Ann Arbor, then less hilly to Lake Michigan. All hard wood, or no evergreen, except some white pine when we struck Lake Michigan, on the sands from the Lake, and some larch before.
Phlox, varying from white to bluish, and painted cup deep scarlet, and also yellow (?) or was this wallflower (?) all very common through Michigan, and the former, at least, earlier [than with us].
The one-dollar houses in Detroit are "The Garrison" and "The Franklin"—in Chicago try next "The City Hotel." The prevailing shade-tree in Chicago is the cottonwood.
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