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nothing in the shape of a road, merely a trail, and the 

 places you drive up and down are astonishing. Unless 

 you saw it, one could not believe it. I am sure the 

 horse ranches will eventually pay, and the young stock, 

 nearly thoroughbred, that have run wild in the prairies 

 are better than our stock at home that have had corn 

 all winter. To-morrow we go to Banff to stay a day, 

 and then on to Glacier House for a day, and then Van- 

 couver. I have bought a lot of Indian bead-work which 

 will delight you. I am very fit, and feel like the old 

 times in the desert." 



" BETWEEN VANCOUVER AND VICTORIA, 

 Sunday, \$th June. 



Since I wrote from Calgary we have been hard 

 at work and seen a great deal. We stayed two days 

 at Banff, which is a lovely spot in the heart of the 

 Rockies. One day we went to the Devil's Lake 

 (Minnewauka) to fish, and caught only one trout, but 

 had a glorious row of about 7 miles up and down the 

 lake, which is very wild and lovely. We left Banff 

 at 6.25 Friday morning, and came right through to 

 Vancouver without stopping, arriving yesterday at 2.30 

 P.M. The scenery across the Rockies, the Selkirks, the 

 Gold Range, and lastly, the Cascade Mountain, is very 

 fine. What interested me most were the trees as we 

 gradually got westward, and there is no doubt British 

 Columbia is the home of the conifers. How often I 

 thought of dear old Powerscourt ; he would go cracked 

 if he got into the Stanley Park at Vancouver. It is 

 really a bit of the forest which covers the entire face of 

 the country, which here runs into a blunt promontory 

 into the sea. It is just like a fairy land. Enormous 

 giants of trees crowding each other, measuring from 20 to 

 40 feet round, and from 200 to 300 feet high. Ospreys, 



