. The tourist's northwest. nk and mauve and blue andlavender that glow unabashed amid the sterngrandeur of granite and ice that is here held in-violate for all time by a protecting Government. Beyond Resplendent we bid the Fraser a some-what sentimental farewell. If we have travelledin its boisterous company along the southernroute, we have by now been diverted by its moodsfor several hundred swift passing miles. MooseLake replaces its gleam below our window. Aswe ascend the last rise to YeUowhead (3720 ft.),lowest of the Rocky Mountain passes crossed bya railroad, a great lake of the same nam
. The tourist's northwest. nk and mauve and blue andlavender that glow unabashed amid the sterngrandeur of granite and ice that is here held in-violate for all time by a protecting Government. Beyond Resplendent we bid the Fraser a some-what sentimental farewell. If we have travelledin its boisterous company along the southernroute, we have by now been diverted by its moodsfor several hundred swift passing miles. MooseLake replaces its gleam below our window. Aswe ascend the last rise to YeUowhead (3720 ft.),lowest of the Rocky Mountain passes crossed bya railroad, a great lake of the same name, one ofthe sources of the Fraser, lies on our way, and atthe continental ridge the Miette River turns withus down the slope. It is interesting to note thatthe route through the Rockies via YeUowheadPass now followed by the Grand Trunk Pacificand the Canadian Northern was originally chosenby the Canadian Pacific, but in 1883 was aban-doned in favour of the Kicking Horse Pass. TheYeUowhead was one of the earliest traverses. PRINCE RUPERT TO EDMONTON 491 known to the doughty fur-seekers who journeyedback and forth between the Athabasca and Colum-bia Valleys. The significant peaks of the Atha-basca Pass, directly south of Yellowhead and (11,000 ft.), are Brown and Hooker, eachabout 9000 feet high. Wilcox relates that formany years these were believed to excel all NorthAmerican summits in altitude. In the The Rock-ies of Canada, he tells the story of a voyageurwho in 1817 crossed the Athabasca Pass with RossCox on the return from Astoria, and who, con-templating in silence the prospect from this out-look, exclaimed with vehemence: Ill take myoath, my dear friends, that God Almighty nevermade such a place. David Douglas, the bota-nist, not the Hudsons Bay factor, named Brownand Hooker ten years later and recorded that theheight of the former does not appear to be lessthan 16,000 or 17,000 feet above the level of thesea. The view from the summit is of too awfula cast to af
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