. On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies . erson, a grizzled old Dane of whommore hereafter; to Mr. Staggy, a short, fat German,wearing a broad hat and a broader smile; to ShortyWebber, a still shorter and stockier German; and to acouple of prospectors who had been operating a grizzlyon some of the Parsnip bars and had washed out a bigbag of dust. As the Forks may in course of time make somenoise in the world, I shall describe a bit in detail how itappeared that afternoon. Flowing up from the south,the Parsni
. On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies . erson, a grizzled old Dane of whommore hereafter; to Mr. Staggy, a short, fat German,wearing a broad hat and a broader smile; to ShortyWebber, a still shorter and stockier German; and to acouple of prospectors who had been operating a grizzlyon some of the Parsnip bars and had washed out a bigbag of dust. As the Forks may in course of time make somenoise in the world, I shall describe a bit in detail how itappeared that afternoon. Flowing up from the south,the Parsnip meets here the mightier Finlay, pouringdown from the north, and their mingled waters becomeknown henceforth as Peace River. To the west of theForks and for a short distance on the east of the Finlaythere lies a level plain, heavily overgrown with timberand consisting of rich alluvium capable of growing splen-did crops, as the luxuriant cabbage and potatoes inPetersons neat garden bore witness. Around this plain,rising like the seats of an ampliitheatre, tower the moun-tains. Those to the west and southwest, the Ominecas,. A trappkrs >iaix camp.
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