REPORT OF THE CHIEF ASTRONOMER 

 SESSIONAL PAPER No. 25a 

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Figure 2. — Diagrammatic map showing subdivision of the Purcell Mountain System 

 at the Forty-ninth Parallel. 



relief. This strong and extensive range has, in its northern part, been gene- 

 rally regarded as part of the Selkirk Mountain group. The middle and 

 southern part, though broader and including most of the area, has, as a whole, 

 never been authoritatively placed in the Selkirk system. Palliser gave the name 

 ' Purcell Eange ' to a single component of the unit, namely, the group of 

 summits lying between Findlay creek and St. Mary river. Dawson extended 

 the name to cover all the mountains between Kootenay lake and the PCocky 



