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in the Clouds, marvellous insets of water high up the 

 mountain-side. Behind them, there is an extensive 

 glacier region, source of some of the great rivers 

 which irrigate the valleys of British Columbia. 

 Verdure and fruitfulness spring up in their tracks. 

 The principal are the Mackenzie, rising in the Great 

 Slave Lake, which flows to the Arctic Ocean ; the 

 Saskatchewan, with its North and South branches; 

 and the Columbia, which empties itself into the 

 Pacific, south of Vancouver Island. The Valley of 

 the Ten Peaks is one of the most beautiful in this 

 mountain district. The latter shape themselves into 

 a crescent round Lake Morine, rearing their heads 

 in pairs, with great snow-drifts lying between. 

 The green tint of the glacier stands out distinctly 

 against the dazzling snow and dark mountain 

 bases. 



Further north a monument is erected to the 

 memory of Sir James Hector of the Palliser, 1858 

 Expedition, the first intrepid explorer of the Rockies. 

 A more imposing monument calls to mind his dis- 

 tinguished services, in the colossal pile that bears the 

 name of Mount Hector. The first president of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway Company, another celebrity, 

 is honoured in the name given to Mount Stephen, 

 which is separated from the Hector Range by a river. 

 At this point the collective streams again separate 

 into two branches, the one taking the Pacific Ocean 

 direction, the other Hudson Bay. A deep gorge of 



