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vhich alternately 

 3n looking along 

 bserving the half- 

 of the same age, 

 the current; and 

 danger they were 

 ,s and thus dying, 

 natural enemy o( 

 ty stream on the 

 appeared as if in 

 elm, and undo all 

 had granted us to 

 th perhaps millions 

 washing away from 

 ind grown for cen- 

 implification of th : 

 .11 should and muit 

 phy of our learned 



Luld " came up near 

 She had troops on 

 s. We passed the 

 ere, and the black- 

 ippointed that they 

 lether with balls or 

 :nt proved so strong 

 iite side of the river. 



\daiusy Aud. and Bach, ii, 

 38, p. 97 (duslty variety); 

 \ S. occiJentalis, And. and 

 Lky variety) ; S. sayii, Aud. 

 Isibly based on the species 

 loccupied for a Ceylonw 

 L called S. rti/ivinter i^^ 

 \n Harlan's Faunu Amen- 



Ire, Glasgow being at th»t 



VVe did not run far; the weather was still bad, raining 

 hard, and at ten o'clock, with wood nearly exhausted, we 

 stopped on the west shore, and there remained all the 

 night, cleaning boilers, etc. 



Sunday SOth. This morning was cold, and it blew a 

 gale from the north. We started, however, for a wooding- 

 place, but the '* John Auld " had the advantage of us, and 

 took what there was; the wind increased .so much that 

 the waves were actually running pretty high down-stream, 

 and we stopped until one o'clock. You may depend 

 my party was not sorry for this; and as I had had no 

 exercise since we left St. Louis, as soon as breakfast was 

 over we started — Bell, Harris, Squires, and myself, with 

 our guns — and had quite a frolic of it, for we killed a 

 ^food deal of game, and lost some. Unfortunately we 

 landed at a place where the water had overflowed the 

 country between the shores and the hills, which are distant 

 about one mile and a half. We started a couple of Deer, 

 which Bell and I shot at, and a female Turkey flying fast; 

 at my shot it extended its legs downwards as if badly 

 wounded, but it sailed on, and must have fallen across 

 the muddy waters. Bell, Harris, and myself shot running 

 exactly twenty-eight Rabbits, Lepus sylvaticiis, and two 

 Bachmans, two Sciurus macrourus of Say, two Arctomys 

 vionax, and a pair of Tetrao \^Bonasa\ umbellus. The 

 woods were alive with the Rabbits, but 'ihey were very 

 wild; the Ground-hogs, Marmots, or Arctomys, were in 

 great numbers, judging from the innumerable burrows we 

 saw, and had the weather been calm, I have no doubt we 

 would have seen many more. Bell wounded a Turkey hen 

 so badly that the poor thing could not fly ; but Harris 

 frightened it, and it was off, and was lost. Harris shot an 

 Arctomys without pouches, that had been forced out of its 

 burrow by the water entering it ; it stood motionless until 

 1 he was within ten paces of it ; when, ascertaining what it 

 . was, he retired a few yards, and shot it with No. 10 shot, 



