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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Along Freedom's Great Highway. 



BY MARY L. JOBS, NEW YORK CITY. 



The Canadian Rockies form a 

 mighty barrier between the productive 

 fields of Alberta and the teeming fruit 



AT THE HEAD OF EMERALD LAKE. 



lands of the British Columbia Coast. 

 But this barrier has been boldly 

 forced near tbe headwaters of the Bow 

 and the Kicking Horse rivers, by tbe 

 Canadian Pacific Railway, which 

 brings the camper, the mountaineer or 

 the pioneer into a region of unparal- 

 leled loveliness. From the railway 



near Stephen you can see two little 

 streams which mark the Continental 

 Divide, one whose waters join the 

 Saskatchewan and flow through broad 

 prairies and wooded highlands to a far- 

 off Hudson's Bay; the other, hurtling 

 through the mountains, seeks a wild 

 Columbia, and an inter-continental 



ON THE TRAIL TO SUMMIT LAKE. 



