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Show Z BY PATH AND TRAIL. So before the old shall have entirely vanished, it is well that we should look upon what yet remains and hand down to an unprivileged future a description and a ver bal photograph of what the country was in days gone by. Lower California, Sonora and the illimitable pine forests of the Chihuahua Eange of the Sierras Madres yet remain in their primitive isolation and magnificent savagery, but, before our century expires, the immense solitudes, the unbroken desolation of wilderness and the melancholy fascination which belong to the lonely desert and towering mountain and to sustained and unbroken silence will be no more. Vale, vale, aeterne vale good-by, good- by for evermore. O. C. |