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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 60 



GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES 



In continuance of his investigation of the Cambrian geology in 

 the main range of the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British 

 Columbia, Canada, Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, visited the region of the Yellowhead Pass, through 

 which two great transcontinental railway lines, the Grand Trunk 

 Pacific, and the Canadian Northern, are now building toward the 

 1 'acific coast. 





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Fig. 22. — Kodak view of Phillips Mountain with the neve and iee of Chushina 

 Glacier, which extends down the slopes a mile where it overhangs the drain- 

 age line from Snowhird Pass. Photograph by Walcott, igu. 



After outfitting at Fitzhugh, cast of the Yellowhead Pass on the 

 line of the Grand Trunk Pacific, the party crossed over the Pass 

 on the continental Divide and turned north from the line of the rail- 

 way at Moose River, 17 miles west of the Pass. The Moose River 

 was followed up to its bead in Moose Pass, and a cam]) made at the 

 head of Calumet Creek, which is a tributary of the Smoky River. 

 The farthest camp out was made at Robson Pass, between Berg and 

 Adolphus Lakes. Side trips were made from two camps in Moose 



