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the new Governor General and his wife. She 

 brightened up greatly before our departure, 

 and if our visit did nothing else, it gave her 

 something to think about after we were gone. 

 She told us that the weather had been very 

 cold in that locality, and they had only had 

 seven "decent" days all summer; the balance 

 of the time they suffered from high winds, 

 much rain, and extreme cold for that time of 

 the year. 



Since my arrival home a letter has come 

 conveying the sad news of her death, probably 

 from homesickness. At the time the letter 

 was sent her husband was taking her out on a 

 dog-sled, for although she had been ill twenty 

 days no medical aid could be sent for. 



On this day we came to the divide or sum- 

 mit, and I took much pleasure in walking over 

 it, a distance said to be eight and a half miles. 

 At the summit we found two considerable mo- 

 raines that had come from a great glacier now 

 dead and extinct. It was a most interesting 

 thing to see how the rocks had been shoved 

 and forced along by the impact of these 

 slowly moving ice packs in the ages that are 

 gone, and what great power these glaciers 

 exert when they are in the fulness of their 

 strength. Without seeing the effects of their 



