THE MONARCH OF THE CAXADIAX ROCKIES- 



639 



It was along the slopes below this gla- 

 cier that our party met a band of moun- 

 tain goat, affording museum specimens 

 as well as food for hungry men and dogs 

 at camp (see page 635). 



THE STREA^rs THAT FLOW FROM TIIF 

 GLACIERS 



The waters flowing from beneath 

 Hunga Glacier form two streams, one 

 on either side of a rocky knoll near the 

 left face adjoining Titkana Peak. The 

 stream at the right has formed a broad 

 delta at the head of Berg Lake, from 

 J which the water passes through the lake 

 and out at 'its foot over the cliffs (see 

 page 636) into Grand Eorks River, and 

 thence by Eraser River to the Pacific. 



On the left the second stream finds its 

 way to Adolphus Lake, and thence down 

 the Smoky, Peace, and Slave rivers to 

 Great Slave Lake and out through the 

 Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean. 

 Sometimes the water of the left-hand 

 stream flows across the broad flat of 

 Robson Pass at the foot of the glacier 

 and enters Berg Lake. On warm days 

 the surface streams on the glacier part 

 and send their waters to the two streams 

 below. 



The geologic story of this enchanting 

 region is too long and complicated to be 

 related here. Suffice it that I found (see 

 page 637) over 12,000 feet in thickness 

 of Cambrian beds capped by 3.000 feet 

 or more of Ordovician strata high up on 

 Robson Peak. 



A new fossil find was made by chance. 

 Mr. Harry Blagden and I were sitting on 

 a huge block of rock at the lower end of 

 INIural Glacier, munching our cold lun- 

 cheon, when I happened to notice a block 

 of black, shaly rock lying on the ice. 



Wishing to warm up, for the mist drift- 

 ing over the ice was cold and wet, I 

 crossed to the block and split it open. 

 On the parting there were several entire 

 trilobites belonging to new species of a 

 new subfauna of the Lower Cambrian 

 fauna. 



Thepe were also some fine marine shells 

 of a kind that occurs in the Lower Cam- 

 brian rocks west of St. Petersburg. Rus- 

 sia. We found the bed from which this 

 block had come by carefully tracing 

 fragments of the shale scattered on the 

 upward-sloping surface of the ice to a 

 cliff" two miles away. Working until late 

 in the afternoon, we carried all we could 

 pack of the rock over the glacier and 

 down through the cliffs to the valley of 

 the Smoky River. 



One of our horses had taken leave on 

 his own account, so we loaded faithful 

 Billy with the rock specimens, two rifles, 

 two shotguns, a camera, and our rain- 

 coats, and plodded over the nuuldy trails, 

 forded two icy-cold rivers, and "dropped 

 in" at camp three hours after dark. At 

 the last ford the powerful animal carried 

 us both and all our impedimenta through 

 the broad, rushing glacial stream. 



If all is well, I hope to return during 

 the summer of 191 3 and spend many 

 weeks in the midst of this area of the 

 "Geologist's Paradise." Meantime if any 

 readers of the N.^tional Geographic 

 Magazine wish to visit Robson Peak, 

 they can readily do so by going to Ed- 

 monton and thence by railroad to ]\Iount 

 Robson Station, which is in sight of Rob- 

 son Peak. The Alpine Club of Canada 

 is planning to have its next summer camp 

 on the shores of Berg Lake, and soon 

 this wonderland will be open to all who 

 love the mountains and the outdoor life. 



A limited number of copies of Dr. 

 W'alcott's beautiful panorama of Mount 

 Robson and its glaciers, which is pub- 

 lished as a Supplement to this number, 

 have been printed on heavy artist's paper 

 suitable for framing, and may be ob- 



tained, unfolded, at 50 cents per copy at 

 the ofiice of the National Geographic 

 Society. 



The panorama was engraved and 

 printed bv the Matthews-Northrup Com- 

 pany of Buffalo, New York. 



