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suspicious when they learned our intention to enter it. But they were probably appeased on 

 sight of the fossils, for they did not visit us on the Reservation, though we told them just where 

 we were bound. • 



After a week's &tay, living largely on venison and nightly visited by skunks and other 

 prowlers, including one bear, we cached our fossils, and made our next move of forty miles to 

 the White River by way of Douglas Creek. We had for company a team of road makers, who 

 had been camped near us There was one ranch and a well of water at a point about midway, 

 where we camped the first night. For myself, armed with hammer and insect net, I walked 

 alone the rest of the journey, meeting not a soul, and shall never forget that broiling, 

 breathless valley. I found just one bit of shade the entire distance by hugging a huge rock, 

 and here I stripped to the skin to bathe in the air, the only elen'ient at hand, and then pushed 

 on, inspired by the thought of a coming plunge in the White River. 



At Rangeley, where we struck the river, were, within a radius of a couple of miles, four or 

 five ranches, a school house and a postotfice, visited twice a week by a post rider from 

 the nearest station, sixty miles away. Here we rested a couple of days, restocked our larder, 

 and then pushed down the river to the Utah boundary and Reservation. The road, if road it 

 could be called, where no teams passed, was of the roughest, and we all had literally to put our 

 shoulders to the wheel to get past difficult places, or to prevent an up^et. At the end of two 

 days' journey we found by the river bank a winter camp of herdsmen, now deserted, and took 

 possession, though we slept in the open. 



Here, in the course of a fortnight or more, we explored the region for ten miles around, 

 varied by an occasional irruption of cow boys in search of vagrant cattle, and willing to play a 

 trick or two on " te'nderfeet." We were more than a dozen miles beyond the last ranch and 

 had the world to • ourselves. We bathed in the coffee- colored White River morning and 

 evening, but the day was given up to exploration and quarrying in the hot August sun. The 

 superb frowning cliffs enticed us in every direction, and we found fossil insects at a dozen 

 different points, and at many horizons of the varicolored strata. We pushed our way into most 

 of the burning side canons but, as it was hot enough elsewhere, merely looked into " Hell 

 Hole." Our most successful quarrying was on the very top of one of the highest bluffs, fully a 

 thousand feet in height, up which we had not only to climb by a precipitous talus heap, 

 but drag a horse after us, laden with our lunch and a keg of water. The water was 

 turbid enough, and our only lunch cold oatmeal and sugar, the cooked oatmeal of a muddy 

 color from the impurity of the water. All specimens had to l)e wrapped and carefully packed 

 Ml satchels for the descent. But we succeeded in our search, found large slabs quite covered 

 with insect remains, and brought away many lundreds of fossils, and finally a large expeiience 

 of roughing it in the West. 



Our horses barely dragged our laden wagons back to Grand Junction, one of the party, 

 taken down by illness during our halt on Roan Mountain, having to lie at full length all 

 the way over the rough roads in the springless wagon. As a result of this six weeks' tiip we 

 discovered that fossil insects can be found at two additional places in Colorado, as abundantly 

 as at Florissant. No doubt there are many i^ther places awaiting discover^'. 



. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PAST. 

 Bv J. Alston" Moffat, Loxdox, Ont. 



It has been remarl<ed that it is a certain indication of persons getting old when they 

 become reminiscent. The recent death of Mr. James Angus, of West Farms, near New York, 

 who wa? for thirly-tvvo years a member (if the Entomological Society of Ontario, luriied my 

 thoughts backwar.Is upon many things, and as there is no question now as to my being old, it 



