C. C. Parry: siectepegs Sketch, &c. 3 
brooks, el ks, floundering through 
sow ae mounting to its ce crests and high alpine 
peaks, was spent most of the summer months of 1861. The 
scientific results of the observations here made, are presented in 
the ose brief sketch and the accompanying list of plants. 
rst im mpression made upon the traveller in approaching 
the Snatain barrier from the broad undulating slope of the 
n 
of the higher peaks rear their snowy summits at considerable 
distances from ao dividing oe and are met with at irregular 
points along the eastern slo umerous cross ridges interrupt 
the KES parallelism of the principal ranges, ne e _— 
“divide” ostly obscured from view by ‘elevated projecting 
spurs. The avec with their impetuous areata ecaing slbea 
their rocky -ehanaibls descend in a zigzag course, making their 
eome more open, = frequently spread out into oval-shaped 
basins, to which the name of bars has been applied by the miners. 
Towards the head pias of the various streams, these basin- 
shaped portions of the principal valleys, beset with scattering 
heavy growths of spruce or exhibiting occasionally smoot 
grassy slopes, are known as parks. These are the miniature rep- 
resentatives of those larger one stretches of mci which 
iia: South, and Middle 
ae aching the dividing <p by following up any of the 
princi streams by which the mountain range is penetra 
e open parks give place to narrow valleys, genera heavily 
Grier with pine and sp T their 
w ~~ pep» narrow rocky cafions, or, obstru by F hekter 
ature, increasing in volume as the sun ascends to relax the icy 
nds of a prcaeene winter, and again contracting as the clear 
ight once more rts the reign of perpetual frost. These 
some brooks a ootak one of the most as irae features of 
Rocky mountain scenery, and along their borders grow some 
of the finest plants of this region. Their pa is that of a 
