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plains of Assiniboia and swings westward, liour after hour, over the 

 silent ranges furrowed everywhere by unnumbered feet of the departed 

 herd. It rises to tlie foothills beyond Calgary and sights the white wall 

 of the Kocl^y mountains a hundred miles away. It plunges through the 

 Gap at Canmore, ascends the valley of the Boav between colossal peaks, 

 crosses the continental divide at Laggan, drops doAvn the canyon beside a 

 foaming torrent to the mountain-girt valley of the Columbia, rises again 

 mile after mile into the icy air of Eogers Pass amid the glaciers of the 

 Selkirk summits and finds its way with the rushing waters of the 



Fk;. 3. Foot of the Great Glaciei; of the Sf.i.kii'.ks. 



Illicillewaet down to the Columbia again at Eevelstoke. It hurries 

 through echoing valleys, beside enchanting lakes, across ridges and 

 chasms into the desert along the Thompson. It enters the historic 

 valley of the Fraser and underneath frowning cliffs creeps down the 

 reverberant gorge to the wonderful amphitheaters of Yale and Hope and 

 finally reaches Vancouver and the sea. Then come the steamer voyages 

 through the Straits of Georgia to Victoria and through the Straits of 

 Fuca to Port Eenfrew, and at last the invigorating walk through the 

 forest or sturdy pull along the shore. To the lover of nature as well as 

 to the serious student of ecology or plant distribution there is perhaps 

 nowhere in the world a more inspiring and instructive journey of tw'o 

 thousp^^d miles than this. It gives an opportunity of becoming 



