Rivers, Gances anp Juma. 
2 Cross a high avalanche of snow, which conceals the 
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river it is very hard frozen. The bed of the river be- 
gins to be widers large isicles hang among the rocks 
F ord a rivulet or torrent from the left 11 feet wide. 
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Rocky and rough.—Gradual ascent.......,.50.+0: 
4 Gradually ascending among rocks, .To the left high 
cliffs of granite, but not so steep as before. ‘To the right 
snowy peaks, their summits about 6 or 7000 feet high, 
distant about 2 miles. The river bed is here about 
2 furlongs wide, and fall of stones. River certainly 
diminished in size; it is very rapid, its bed being an 
ascent. We are now above the line of vegetation of 
Paces. 
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trees, and past the Jast firs.—The birches ‘remain, but — 
they are only large bushes laurels also are seen, and 
_asortof, I believe, litchen, which grows in the rocks,— 
_ The noble 3 peaked snowy mountain shines in our. 
if front, and i is the grandest and most Sue object the 
eye of man ever beheld. As na person. knows these 
peaks or their names, we assume the privilege of nae 
vigators, and call them St. George, St. Patrick, and. 
St. Andrews St. George bears 129, St. Patrick 132 30, 
N. B. On going further, we saw another lower peak. bee 
tween St. George and St. Patrick, which we called St. 
David, and the mountain collectively, the 4 Saints. 
5 A fall of the river of 12 feet over rocks, and a succession 
of smaller falls—The inclination of the bed of the 
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