The period of the last great advance of Superior ice on the South Shore. Velum A thin, membranous covering enveloping young mushrooms, remnants of which may form a ring or spots. Verendrye Sieur de la Verendrye, French explorer and fur trader, who visited the area in 1731, returning in the spring of 1732 to establish trading posts on the border lakes. This marks the beginning of the fur trade and the era of the French-Canadian voyageur.
Boundaries are schist, giving way to a characteristic grey-pink granite towards the center.
A terminal moraine of the Rainy Lobe of the Ontario ice sheet. It marks the northernmost boundary of the vast area of significant glacial deposits extending far south into Iowa. North of the moraine, the glaciers scraped the land to its very bones. Vireo Any of several species of small, insect-eating birds of the tree tops belonging to the New World genus Vireo . Virgin Timber Timber from an original forest that has not been previously disturbed or influenced by human activity.