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dulge farther at this time; so I placed him in a large 
cage with some canary birds, where he remained feasting 
on nine scorpions a day, until he had recovered the use 
of his wing, when I set him free. 
Scorpions are generally found two or three together, 
sometimes in larger numbers. They shed their skins 
without a rent, coming out at the mouth, like the snakes. 
They moult when they are about half-grown, and again 
when they come to maturity, and I do not know that they 
ever again cast their skin during the remainder of their 
life. They live through two winters, as I can testify, and 
may exist many years. They are not possessed of much 
intelligence, making no nests or preparation for winter, 
Bead crawling petn rocks and other dry and sheltered 
places. Their principal cerebral developments are ama- 
tiveness, alimentiveness, and cautiousness. 
A NOTE FROM THE FAR NORTH. 
BY J. T. ROTHROCK. 
Earty in the year 1865, the writer of this scrap eagerly 
embraced an opportunity afforded him of visiting the less 
known parts of North-western North America. The 
region travelled over lay between the Coast Range and 
the Rocky Mountains, and from latitude 50° north to. 61° 
north. 
From latitude 56°, as far north as Fort Youkon (a post 
belonging to the Hudson Bay Company, exact position 
undetermined) , a distance of at least 1,500 miles, the 
country was, and still is, in part, a terra incognita. It is 
to be hoped that erelong much of the uncertainty hang- 
ing over it will have been cleared up. Geographers, it is 
