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foreign powers, as it runs entirely throngh British territory. 

 The scream of the locomotive already indicates that the possi- 

 bilities of solitary exploring parties little less than thirty years 

 ago are fast becoming facts in modern liistory. Winnipeg is 

 now a great city. The line traverses a fertile district through- 

 out ; though a little to the south-west the arid desert of the 

 Central States holds sway. Just before the site of our second 

 picture, a park-like country, with here and there clumps of 

 noble trees, replaces the rolling prairie which presented no 

 engineering dififlculties. Indeed, in the mountains themselves, 



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where the true forest region begins, the gradients are trifling 

 compared with those surmounted by similar railways formed 

 along the slopes of tlie Himalaya. The forests thus skirted 

 on the western side of the Canadian Pacific Railway will, under 

 proper conservancy, yield valuable timber supplies to the young 

 town already springing up eastwards in the prairies it traverses ere 

 coming to Calquary, which is nearest the locality through which the 

 train runs in our picture. Dr. ]Macnab of Dublin informs us that 



