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frogs, and water-beetles. The mountain-springs 
form little trickling rivulets, sometimes beard mur- 
muring in subterranean cbannels under your feet. 
Tlie Centaurea, and the bird’s-foot trefoil, the 
willow, the his, and the pink, grow in abundance. 
The humble-bees wander, droning over the tops of 
the flowers. I captured three or four species of 
snout-beetles, one with an egregiously long neck. 
I beat Balanus from the young oaks,’^and a cryp- 
torhynchus from the Eleagnus-bushes. Melasoma is 
common on the willows, and two speoies of Euchlora 
on the trailing Smilax. The Apollo ‘butterfly and 
the swallow-tail here sun their gorgeous wings. 
There arc a few rude huts, and, perchance, a soli- 
tary woman, in the universal white Korean gar- 
ments, may be seen pounding millet near the low 
doorway, while the husband smokes his pipe on the 
threshold. Higher up, you comer to huge stones 
and masses of rock, all grey, and green, and yellow 
with lichens, and with Eleagnus-bushes growing up 
between them. From this you gradually make 
your toilsome way to Wilford's Rest, where oiu’ 
