SMITHSONIAN M ISCELLANEOL'S COLLECTIONS 



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The character of the mountains about the head-waters of the 

 Middle Fork of the Saskatchewan is ilkistrated by figure 2, where a 

 glacial stream flows out through a deeply eroded valley with high 

 ridges and ])eaks rising in steej:) slopes and cliffs. The position of 

 the camp in Glacier Lake canyon is shown in figure 3. and the outlook 

 to the west toward the glacier from the camp by figure 5, and to the 



Fig. 2. — View looking up the Middle Fork (Howse River) of the Sas- 

 katchewan River to Howse Pass (5,000') on the Continental Divide. 



In the distance beyond Howse Pass the peaks of the Van Home Range 

 and Mount Vaux of the Ottertail Range, and on the right and above the 

 Pass Mount Conway, and to the extreme right the eastern ridge of Mount 

 Outram. 



Locality. — View taken from the upper slope of Survey Peak above 

 Glacier Lake, about 48 miles (76.S km.) northwest of Lake Louise station 

 on the Canadian Pacific Railroad, Alberta, Canada. 



Photograph by Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Walcott, 1919. 



east by figure 4, where the <lark massive bulk of Mount Murchison 

 rises in cliff's abtjve the canyon of the Mistaya River along which the 

 trail from I'.ow Pass descends. 



'J'he measured geological section begins at the foot of the ridge 

 at the extreme left of figure i, and was measiu-ed in the cliff's and 

 slopes, and thus carried to the side of the Mons glacier shown in 



