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dant in the mountain ridges that encompass the upper 

 waters of the turbulent Columbia river, but the tide of 

 emigration which has flowed into Oregon and British 

 North Western possessions has had the effect of lessen- 

 ing their numbers, and driving a large proportion of 

 the survivors from what at one time must have been 

 one of their chief habitats. However, both these 

 species are not likely soon to become extinct, for the 

 nature of the country they inhabit is a safeguard 

 which the poor buffalo unfortunately does not possess ; 

 ay, and what will the undulating prairie be to the 

 Indian and hunter when you deprive it of the lordly 

 bull, who in times gone by caused each tree, rock and 

 ravine to reverberate with his deep voice or heavy 

 tread ? 



The time may come I do not wish to see it when 

 these broad acres will possess mills and factories, daily 

 disgorging their inky smoke into the pure azure 

 heavens, or their thousands of unwashed mortality 

 over what now is a flower-studded prairie. 



Manchester doubtless is charming to the factory 

 owner, for well is he aware that every throb of its 

 machinery, every grunt of its boilers, tells the constant 

 tale : money, money, money. Possibly not being a 

 recipient of the lucre these never-tiring engines coin, 

 I prefer the landscape when free from such evidences 

 of man's industry. 



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