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' Araby the blest.' I shall not shock my fair 

 readers with any comparison you must imagine 

 it is not agreeable. Dogs also live on these plat- 

 forms ; for the Indian dog is Always with his mas- 

 ter, sharing bed as well as board. These canine 

 favourites are not exempt from persecutors ; like 

 the giant of old, they at once ' smell the blood of 

 an Englishman,' and will have some; but, after 

 all, the night steals away, you know not how, 

 until the dawn, blushing over the eastern hill- 

 tops, rouses all the dreaming world except 

 mosquitos, that never sleep. 



On the eastern side of the Cascades the 

 scenery and general physical condition of the 

 country materially changes, and the Tabanus and 

 burning-fly become the ruling persecutors. 



Lagomys minimus (Lord, sp. nov. ) The 

 Commissioner, myself, a few men, and a small 

 train of pack-mules, set out to visit some of the 

 stations on the Boundary-line, east of the Cas- 

 cades. Our route lay along the valley of the 

 Shimilkameen river, to strike Ashtnolow, a tribu- 

 tary that led up into the mountains, the course of 

 Avhich we were to follow as far as practicable. 

 We had a delightful trip, through a district in- 

 describably lovely. 



There is a wild and massive grandeur about 



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