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We went across the Mississippi, and afterwards ascended 

 the stre:yii to Alton, in the IHinois, a rising place, destined 

 perhaps some day to be a rival to St. Louis. It is now divided 

 into three towns, Lower Alton, close to the river. Middle 

 Town, a little further off, and Upper Alton, distant about 

 three miles from the first. There seems a great deal of busi- 

 ness doing here, and building lots sell very high ; near the 

 water, the ground is worth 250 dollars per foot frontage. There 

 is a high conical bluff near the town, from which we obtained 

 a splendid view of the river and adjacent country. At our 

 feet was the town ; in front and on both sides the broad and 

 calm river, on the right bounded by high bluffs and making a 

 considerable bend, the bluffs of the eastern bank being visible 

 over the low sv/ampy woods of the western shore ; far down to 

 the west are the islands of the mouth of the Missouri, clothed 

 with beautiful woods. The woods are most noble, and are 

 now just assuming their autumnal tints. I was much pleased 

 with the town. There are three churches in Lower, and two 

 in Upper Alton. 



Jn returning to St. Louis, we had a fine view of the con- 

 fluence of the two rivers. Only think of the grandeur of a 

 continent in which two mighty rivers, each more than a mile 

 in width, unite, 1,300 miles from the sea, and flow on, 

 swallowing up other vast floods, like Pharaoh's lean kine, 

 without growing any larger. 



Art. XXL — Proceedings of the Entomological Club. 



Sitting of the IStii of Cctobeu, 1837. 



Mr. Bennett in the Chair. 



The following donations were announced, and the thanks 

 of the Club voted to the respective donors : — 



Mr. Henry Doubleday, of Epping. Various British 

 Lepidoptera. 



Mr. J. Wigglesworth, of Wilmington, State of Delaware, 

 North America. A large number of bisects of all classes, 

 collected by himself in Delaware State. The collection con- 

 sists principally of the larger Lepidoptera, of LibelMltes, and 

 of Coleoptera; the last were sent over with spirits in a dozen 

 • bottles : the number of species is only ninety-one, being much 



