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are few and far between; it had brought its sweet-briar scent with 
it from Europe. The other Pierine was Oolias chrysotheme, Steph., 
f. johilodice , Godart, of which I saw several, and took one of 
each sex. 
The Swallow-tails were represented by the fine yellow Papilio 
glaucus turnus, which was rather common. 
Moths were not at all prominent, a worn-out Acidaliid could not 
be named; of the Quadrifid Yellow Under-wing, Syneda diver gens, 
Behr., which seemed to be a day-flier, I took two; I also got two, 
one of each sex, of the handsome day-flying Saturniid, Pseudohazis 
eglanterina, Boisd. 
A week divided between Glacier House, in the Selkirks, and 
Lake Louise, in the Kockies, was devoted to mountaineering of a 
mild kind, though rain sadly curtailed our operations. At that time 
of the year (beginning of June) the snow-line was so low at Glacier 
as almost to reach the railway track, so that the ascent of Mt. Abbott 
(8500 ft.), in August a “ grass mountain/’ had to be made with a 
Swiss guide over snow all the way. The usual path was broken by 
a somewhat menacing snow cornice, so that we had to make a wide 
detour and traverse a slope where we would have been glad of a rope. 
However, our descent was much accelerated by glissading. 
On our way to the Asulkan (wild goat) Glacier we crossed the 
track of a considerable avalanche, under which the river made its 
way, and were surprised at the force of the Lawine Luft , or blast 
of wind caused by the avalanche, many quite large trees having 
been broken in half. Had not the guide Feuz assured me that this 
was the cause, I could never have believed it. We saw several 
marmots on the snow, and tracks of mountain goats and foxes. 
The views were everywhere superb, and indeed much more 
imposing than they can possibly be after the melting of the snow. 
I had seen a few of the peaks in 1884, but they were for the most 
part strangers, nevertheless I seemed among old friends since I had 
met many of the men after whom the mountains had been named, 
e.g. Sir John Abbott, Douglas Ereshfield, George Dawson, W. F. 
Donkin, Prof. Macoun, Sir Kichard Temple, and Sir Charles Tupper. 
From the Great Divide of the Kockies to the mighty St. Lawrence 
the route was not new to me, for I had traversed it just twenty years 
before. Many of the changes I was unable to see, since the train 
passed in the night some of the places of which I saw most in 1884. 
At Banff, for instance, in 1884, Mr. William Barnard and I slept on 
the not very clean floor of the section house. On a cold September 
morning we went out to draw our washing water from the well, and 
