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disappeared all of a sudden, and I only got one specimen the following 

 season, although I kept on the lookout for it for two months. I think 

 it was flying some time in July, on very hot days. I gave a couple to 

 the late T. Wilson, who said he had never seen it liefore. 



MOUNT McLEAN 



jVIcLean lies to the west of the town of Lillooet. It is bounded 

 on the south by Seton Lake and on the north by the lower Bridge River. 

 The highest peak cannot be seen from the town, but a trail starts from 

 here that is the best possible route to take for one wishing to reach the 

 summit. To climb the 7,438 feet and return to town the same dav 

 is not too strenuous an undertaking. Any young man that is a good 

 walker can make it easily. Those who prefer to ride can take horses, 

 and there is a very good trail the whole way. As the town is 862 feet 

 above sea level, it means the peak is 8,300 feet high. July and Avigust 

 are the ideal months for the collector. Those contemplating a one-day 

 trip should start at two or three a.m. There is an excellent place for 

 breakfast at about 5,000 feet. Timber line would be then reached at 

 about six, and by that time the sun would be warm enough to bring out 

 quite a few butterflies. By nine or ten a person could be on the summit. 

 Even on the hottest days it is cool there, as there is generally a breeze 

 blowing. The horse flies might be a little troublesome, but you can 

 have some sport bottling these. There are several lakes and you could 

 work down to these for lunch. Collecting is good anywhere here. The 

 view from the top is beyond description. I think I counted three hundred 

 snow-capped peaks, some seventy miles away. Looking towards the 

 coast, it is a sea of peaks, some covered with perpetual snow down their 

 sides for two or three thousand feet. 1 can pick out one at the head of 

 Cayoosh Creek that must be 9,000 feet. Frank Gott is the only human 

 being who has ever climbed it, Indians excepted (but I don't think they 

 ever did), so I named it Gott Mountain. I got on top of the next peak 

 and took a picture of it. 



The flora is most interesting. J. M. Macoun, Dominion Botanist, 

 collected here in 1916. He got nearly a thousand species, and claims 

 it is one of the best fields he ever collected in. The most beautiful spots 

 lie between 4,000 and 6,500 feet. Here whole hillsides are a mass of 

 purple lupins, dotted with yellow lillies and framed with dark green fir 

 or spruce. In the distance shining snow-banks show through the trees. 



There is quite a contrast between the flowers found at the town and 

 those on top of the mountain. Here we have almost tropical vegetation, 

 as cactus, sage brush, and other plants that grow in Arizona, while at 

 8,000 feet we find alpine flowers that grow up into the Arctic Circle. 

 This should be the ideal field for the collector, and I daresay gives a com- 

 bination that will be hard to beat anywhere. Then lying between the 

 wet and dry belts, a person has only to go a few miles one way or the 

 other to find the fauna and flora entirely difl^erent. 



