LAKE HELEN. 



named, and this I called Lacey's peak, in 

 honor of Major John F. Lacey, Member of 

 Congress from Iowa and author of the 

 Lacey bird law. 



Near the base of this mountain lies a 

 beautiful, clear, green mountain lake about 

 a mile long and with an average width of 

 half a mile, which I named Lake Julester, 

 in honor of the little daughter of Mr. H. 

 M. Shrady. _ 



Near a high summit, which I have de- 

 scribed in another place, is one of the most 

 important and picturesque glaciers in that 

 country. This I named the Great Horn- 

 aday Glacier, in honor of William T. Horn- 

 aday, Director of the New York Zoological 

 society, and one of America's foremost nat- 

 uralists. This glacier covers probably 

 5,000 acres of land. On the summit the ice 

 varies in depth from 50 feet to 300 feet, and 

 flows out to both the East and West. The 

 Eastern tongue is about 600 yards wide and 

 flows into the Sun Wapta river, which in 

 turn flows into the Athabasca river, and 

 eventually into the Mackenzie. The high 

 peak on the left of this tongue I desig- 

 nated as Hornaday's peak. 



There is one branch of this glacier which 

 has been crowded off at almost a right 

 angle with the main outflow, and which is 

 about 200 feet wide by 30 to 50 feet in 

 depth. The ice in this branch is split up 

 into needles and pinnacles of the most 

 weird, picturesque and beautiful shapes. 

 The crevices between the various bodies are 

 numerous and many of them wide enough 

 for a man to walk through. Within these 

 crevices the ice is of a brilliant, translucent 

 blue that can not be described in words. 



Half way down Bear creek lies another 



of the beautiful mountain lakes for which 

 that region is noted, and which I named 

 Lake Helen, in honor of Miss Helen 

 Hornaday, daughter of Mr. W. T. Horna- 

 day. Lake Helen is about 2 miles long by 

 one mile wide and is clear, deep, cold and 

 as green as the ocean. 



The terminal moraine is a marvelous 

 piece of work. One section of it, which 

 extends below the flow of ice, has an aver- 

 age depth of about 70 feet, a width of 400 

 to 500 feet and a length of nearly half a 

 mile. On the South side this embankment 

 is nearly perpendicular, and the base of the 

 wall extends close to a spur of the moun- 

 tain on which grow a few scrubby spruces 

 and cedars. 



The Hornaday glacier is one of the few 

 in that country of manv glaciers which is 

 not receding. It has flowed millions of 

 years and still continues to flow clear down 

 into the Sun Wapta river. In fact, streams 

 flowing out from under the various 

 branches of the Hornaday glacier make the 

 Sun Wapta. 



We camped about 2 miles South of the 

 glacier and from that point we could liter- 

 ally look down on it. There, spread out 

 in the river valley below us, surrounded 

 by green meadows, whole gardens of wild 

 flowers and groves of spruce, timber, was 

 the vast bed of ice, gleaming in the sum- 

 mer sun with a brilliancy that almost 

 dazzled us. 



Lacey's peak, Mount Shrady, and the 

 Hornaday glacier are conspicuous land- 

 marks of the Athabasca trail and are al- 

 ready known by their names to all the 

 hunters, trappers, prospectors, guides and 

 other pioneers 111 that country. 



Upon her face observe the freckles, 

 A wealth of funny, dark brown speckles ! 

 Tho' she's not fair, 

 She should not care, 

 Because her pa has lots of shekels. 



— Cleveland Leader. 

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