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same pursuit ; when these bring him a quantity of beetles, 

 they receive a handful of raisins in exchange.^ 



I have walked up the Brandy wine to a friend's house; the 

 scenery is rocky and wooded, and very beautiful, though not 

 equal to Trenton. I saw numbers of Humming-birds, Cat- 

 birds fighting for elderberries. Sandpipers, &c. I took a few 

 Coleoptera ; I consider this a much better place for collecting, 

 and it being four degrees more southerly, of course it should 

 be so. 



As T came up the Delaware this morning I saw many little 

 white Egrets on the muddy banks, and thousands of Red- 

 winged Starlings. To-morrow 1 leave for Pittsburgh. My 

 box, containing the Trenton insects, will go by the Mediator ; 

 also a parcel, containing some Indian affairs, a sketch of the 

 house at Trenton, &c. &c. 



Louisville, \d>th Septcmher, 1837. — On the 5th instant I left 

 Philadelphia by rail-road to Harrisburg ; thence onward to 

 the mountains by canal ; then over the mountains by rail-roads, 

 sometimes whirled along by locomotives, at others dragged up 

 the smaller slopes by horses, and up the steeper inclined planes 

 by stationary engines, and lowered on the opposite sides 

 by endless ropes ; till we reached Holidaysberg, where we 

 again took the canal boat to Pittsburgh. The rain, which 



a The immense number of individuals sent by Mr. Wigglesworth, as recorded 

 in this Number, is thus accounted for. The Cocoons of the Phaloena Cecropia, &c. 

 are deposited in the collection of the Entomological Club. 



