1884.] THE TRAVELLING FORESTER. 101 



It is not to be inferred that all the plantation would have been 

 worth £60 at fifty years old, even if properly thinned, but it may be 

 concluded that it would have been worth £80 per acre when 100 

 years old, including the whole area, which implies that some of it 

 would have been worth over £100 per acre. The soil of the above 

 plantation was gravelly, thin, and poor, but such as jjroduces fine 

 quality of wood when at maturity, at, say, 100 to 120 years. 



THE TRAVELLING FORESTEIL 



IN THE " EOCKIES." 



T had previously been the habit of the British Association to 

 make the lionizing of world-renowned travellers a prominent 

 feature of their annual gatherings. This j'ear the j)ractice was 

 varied when in Canada, by a trip lasting a week in all. The western 



I 



KICKING-HORSE VAI.I.EY. 



limit was one of four passes, opening a way for the Canadian 

 Pacific Eailway to British Columbia through the defiles of the 

 Eocky IMountaius. 



