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come and share the treasures which for eight years I liave 

 been enjoying, I pen a few lines suggesting a six weeks' 

 entomological tour. This would, I doubt not, at about the 

 same expense as a similar trip in England would cost, just 

 double the enterprising voyageurs collection of butterflies 

 alone, and at the same lime open out to him some of the 

 finest scenery in the world. 



Starting from Paris by the 8 p.m. train, you are landed by 

 the Dijon and Pontarlier route at Lausanne (Hotel Faucon) 

 at 10.25 A.M., and at Aigle 1.14 p.m. the next day, for a cost 

 of about £3 from Paris. 



The cost of living en pension in this country, at the places 

 which an entomologist would naturally select, averages from 

 six to eight francs (five or seven shillings) a day, wine, 

 candles and service being extras, but not heavy items. 

 Living en pension, however, necessitates at least a week's 

 residence in the same hotel, otherwise hotel prices are 

 demanded, which would raise the amount to ten or sixteen 

 francs the day. At almost all the places mentioned below 

 an agreement can be made on arrival to be placed en 

 pension. 



L I should recommend our chasseur to make direct for 

 Aigle. He can book his place direct from Paris to 

 Lausanne, and then secure a iVesh ticket for Aigle. There 

 are two very good hotels in the town of Aigle (Beau Site 

 and Mon Sejour, pension six and a half francs), and one 

 much more luxurious but more expensive just outside the 

 town. In any of these hotels he could locate himself most 

 comfortably for a week or more, and make short expeditions 

 by train to fresh hunting-grounds, besides the numberless 

 walks that can be accomplished in the immediate vicinity. 



n. I should next recommend a week's pension (five and a 

 half francs per day) at the Hotel des Alpes, Sepey, which is 

 a marvellous place for night-work with light, as well as 

 abounding in promising hunting-grounds. If only my friend 

 Madame Fashnach, the landlady, would put the chasseur in 

 the same chamber that I occupied last spring, he would have 

 a perfect storm of rarities round his petrole lamp at midnight. 

 The high road up from Aigle to Sepey (two and a half hours) 

 is one of the most wonderful hunting-grounds 1 ever visited. 

 There is no knowing what you may catch there. On fine 



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