now in view, out a huddled employment of sand. The front on the east and in the river valley is formidable, and the same slim through that are approaching the semi-desert of the desert plateaus. The country the Thompson is an emerald green, and the river is duff winding in a canyon. The Fraser continues N. and the C.P.R. goes E up the Thompson. All the cuts E of Lytton are crumbling down at expected rate, and a well flows in common. These rocks are all greens of Tertiary time. The Thompson river goes through a wide valley made up of alluvium into which the river has cut itself some hundreds of feet and often crossing the Cache Creek and Cutacian rocks. The Cret. has some black argillite in flats, well seen in Black Canyon. Ashcroft is one of the largest villages of our run. Trees are few, and the ground is covered with sage bushes. We are in the desert plain, At 8.30 P.M., we have come 291 miles = 24 miles per hour.