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Territories; for it never fails to engage the atten 

 tion of naturalists in a very particular manner. 



Such, then, is our little cinclus, beloved of every 

 one who is so fortunate as to know him. Tracing 

 on strong wing every curve of the most precipitous 

 torrents from one extremity of the Sierra to the 

 other; not fearing to follow them through their 

 darkest gorges and coldest snow-tunnels; ac 

 quainted with every waterfall, echoing their divine 

 music ; and throughout the whole of their beautiful 

 lives interpreting all that we in our unbelief call 

 terrible in the utterances of torrents and storms, as 

 only varied expressions of Grod's eternal love. 



