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‘Araby the blest.’ I shall not shock my fair 
readers with any comparison—you must imagine 
it is not agreeable. Dogs also live on these plat. 
forms; for the Indian dog is always with his mas- 
ter, sharing bed as well as board. These canine 
favourites are not exempt from persecutors ; like 
the giant of old, they at once ‘smell the blood of 
an Englishman,’ and will have some; but, after 
all, the night steals away, you know not how, 
until the dawn, blushing over the eastern hill- 
tops, rouses all the dreaming world—except 
mosquitos, that never sleep. 
On the eastern side of the Cascades the 
scenery and general physical condition of the 
country materially changes, and the 7abanus and 
burning-fly become the ruling persecutors. 
Lagomys minimus (Lord, sp. nov. )—The 
Commissioner, myself, a few men, and a small 
train of pack-mules, set out to visit some of the 
stations on the Boundary-line, east of the Cas- 
cades. Our route lay along the valley of the 
Shimilkameen river, to strike Ashtnolow, a tribu- 
tary that led up into the mountains, the course of 
which we were to follow as far as practicable. 
We had a delightful trip, through a district in- 
describably lovely. 
There is a wild and massive grandeur about 
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