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THE TRAVELLIXG FORESTER. 



[Dec. 



This spot, now engirdled by the iron network of our modern 

 civilisation, lies in longitude 51° 20' x., and latitude 117° w. 

 The visitors describe the scene as one of surpassing beauty, — the 

 variegated horizontal strata of the mountains standing out pro- 

 minently in the clear dry atmosphere ; while a thrill of home 

 sped through the breast of more than one old Edinburgh I'niver- 

 sity student, as he gazed on gigantic peaks with the familiar names 

 of Mounts Balfour and Goodsir. This district was the exploring 

 ground of Dr. Eobert Brown, author of The Maces of Man, — so 

 it also rejoices in mountams called after Hooker, Murchison, and 

 Lvell. 



MOUNTAIN AT KICKING-HCHiSE I'AHS. 



Matter-of-fact travellers will soon hurry through this as yet 

 pristine defile ; for the whole line, 2900 miles in length, when 

 completed to Fort Moody near Barnard's Inlet, British Columbia, 

 may be ready by Christmas of 1885. But the liusiest cannot 

 banish the reflection that this is the newest and best trade 

 route betwixt east and west. Here is the realization of the 

 dream of Columbus, that the riches of Cathay might best be 

 brought to Europe across the Atlantic. Here, too, is the best 

 termination of that dreary Xorth Pole problem, which has cost 

 England alone over i 1,0 00,0 00 from 1800 to 1845 in Arctic 

 expeditions. This is another solution of the Egyptian problem. 

 We shall have in the Canadian raeific liailway, when completed, 

 a route to India and Australia, unfettered by complications with 



