now in view, all a huddled emulsion of sand. The front on the right and in the river valley is formidable, and the sun shines through that ore are approaching the semi-desert of the Broken Plateaus. The mating the Thompson is an emerald green, and the river is deep misted in a canyon. The Fraser enters N. and the C.P.R. goes E up the Thompson. All the cuts E of Lethbridge are crawling down at rapid rate, and a well flows our 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 reflying the Cache Creek and Cutacian rocks. The Crest. has some black argillites in it also, now seen in Black Canyon. Ashcroft is one of the largest villages of its size. Trees are few, and the ground is covered with days burros. We are in the desert flora. At 8.30 P.M., we have come 291 miles = 24 miles per hour.