. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . mn majesty pastNew Westminster seventy miles below, or the samewhich flows calmly, three hundred yards wide, pastFort George, three hundred and fifty miles surely must be very deep here, and the current isobviously strong : the water is simply boiling, inseething whirlpools, among the rocks. It is a glorious sight, this canon ; each bendof the line brings some fresh beauty into one point we cross to the other side, and canlook right down over the side of the trestle bridgelinto the foaming torrent below. The grotesquelysh
. The call of the West -letters from British Columbia . mn majesty pastNew Westminster seventy miles below, or the samewhich flows calmly, three hundred yards wide, pastFort George, three hundred and fifty miles surely must be very deep here, and the current isobviously strong : the water is simply boiling, inseething whirlpools, among the rocks. It is a glorious sight, this canon ; each bendof the line brings some fresh beauty into one point we cross to the other side, and canlook right down over the side of the trestle bridgelinto the foaming torrent below. The grotesquelyshaped rocks, the boiling rapids, the eddies andwhirlpools, the falls with incessantly flying spray,the deep pools, no one knows how deep. Imaginethe fate of a canoe in such waters ! And yet there are people who will sleep, or readthe paper, or play cards, without so much as aglance out of the window ! There scarcely seems room for one railwaythrough this canon, and yet another is being builtthe Canadian Northern Pacific will soon be running & £ s-. THE FRASER AT HOPE.
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