. Rod and gun . T The Wonders of the Canadian Alps BY B. S. COMSTOCK. IT MAY, perhaps, interest your readersto see the first photographs taken ofGlacier Lake and of the region adja-cent thereto at the base of MountForbes, especially as this lake may beconsidered the source of one of the forksof the great Saskatchewan river. A bit. Carrigan Snow Bridge Over Stream. of the writers experience in this regionin 1900 may also be worth telling. Mr. Collie, the celebrated member ofthe English Alpine Club, spent a week ortwo thereabout the year before, togetherwith Mr. Wilcox. He fails to make men-tion
. Rod and gun . T The Wonders of the Canadian Alps BY B. S. COMSTOCK. IT MAY, perhaps, interest your readersto see the first photographs taken ofGlacier Lake and of the region adja-cent thereto at the base of MountForbes, especially as this lake may beconsidered the source of one of the forksof the great Saskatchewan river. A bit. Carrigan Snow Bridge Over Stream. of the writers experience in this regionin 1900 may also be worth telling. Mr. Collie, the celebrated member ofthe English Alpine Club, spent a week ortwo thereabout the year before, togetherwith Mr. Wilcox. He fails to make men-tion of some interesting features whichcame under our eye and that of our cam-era. One afternoon, while camping inone of the smaller valleys leading to-ward the central ice mass from which theCollie glacier in one of its numeroustongues issues, our interest was excitedby the white gleam of the ice river at thehead of the valley, and toward it we madeour way, following the roaring \e soon came, however, to a point wherethe walls of the stream narrowed, risingprecipitously on either side, and thusforming a canyon. We could no longerfollow along the banks, and the turbulenceand volume of water were such that aman could not wade it. Here a circum-stance assisted us which is visible in thephotograph. So narrow was the ravin
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