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place are remains of Indian encampments, medicine 

 lodges, etc. The tribes in this vicinity are greatly 

 exercised over the fact of the white man having 

 lately asserted ownership of their great sanitarium, 

 and having assumed its control. Mr. J. R. Brown 

 has erected over the springs a large bath-house, and 

 near that a commodious hotel. He has cut a road 

 through a pass in the mountains to Agassiz station, 

 on the Canadian Pacific Railway, five miles distant, 

 so that the springs may now be easily reached by 

 invalids wishing to test their curative properties. 

 Soon after my arrival at the springs, I climbed the 

 mountain to the east of the hotel, and passed the 

 time pleasantly, until sunset, viewing the beautiful 

 scenery in the neighborhood. 



On the following morning I took a boat and rowed 

 up the east shore of the lake, in hope of getting a shot 

 at a deer, but though I saw plenty of fresh signs all 

 along the shore no game was visible. I spent the 

 afternoon looking anxiously for my promised guide, 

 but he came not. I again amused myself, however, 

 taking views of the scenery, but found on develop- 

 ing the negatives that I had not been eminently suc- 

 cessful with either Mount Douglass or Mount Chiam. 

 Snowy mountains are about the most difficult objects 

 in all nature to photograph, especially if you attempt 

 to include anything beside the snowy peaks in the 

 picture ; for they are so intensely white, and the sky 

 or even clouds that form the background are so light 

 and afford so slight contrast, that it is next to impossi- 

 ble to get good sharp pictures of them. The landscape 

 about the mountains is sure to offer some dark objects, 

 perhaps deep shadows, and even the mountain itself 



