. The Rockies of Canada; . CHAPT DESCRIB UTES OF EY ■ ohara LAKE - IMPRESSIVE PASS —CHST VISIT TO TiMOON — DAYBREA Lake O Hara, OF PALMS AND EVITHE SPRUCE TREES —WH;BY COLD— UNENDING VARGLORIES OF THE PARTII IN all the mountainpicture of naturLake. To writeand bring the salient s an easy matterof a long pent-up enthufire and inspiration uifling sun often -co difficult to descr: r limitless extent apf ition, but in the i mountains b •ir utter helples - THE SPE- PEACE- . Y—AN SELS — ER THE A MOSSY COMPARI- TRAITS OF IS CONaUERED — COLOUR >st completeat OHarah a scene,rnagina-draughtvvs with;-
. The Rockies of Canada; . CHAPT DESCRIB UTES OF EY ■ ohara LAKE - IMPRESSIVE PASS —CHST VISIT TO TiMOON — DAYBREA Lake O Hara, OF PALMS AND EVITHE SPRUCE TREES —WH;BY COLD— UNENDING VARGLORIES OF THE PARTII IN all the mountainpicture of naturLake. To writeand bring the salient s an easy matterof a long pent-up enthufire and inspiration uifling sun often -co difficult to descr: r limitless extent apf ition, but in the i mountains b •ir utter helples - THE SPE- PEACE- . Y—AN SELS — ER THE A MOSSY COMPARI- TRAITS OF IS CONaUERED — COLOUR >st completeat OHarah a scene,rnagina-draughtvvs with;-light, thebasket,desert,illy to themajesty andmd the writernat manner of ex. difficult? of ©escribing IRatural Scenery 221 pression is best ? To give infinite detail to make thestory truthful and complete is to perplex and , on the other hand, to give an impressionisticsketch, is fleeing Scylla to encounter Charybdis,because blurred details and hazy outlines if carriedtoo far make the interpretation lack strength andindividuality. Now every extraordinary scene has for me a char-acteristic note peculiar to itself alone. There is avast difference, for instance, between the wildness ofthose jagged peaks and rough shores that encircleMoraine Lake, and that perfection of the single pic-ture as realised at Lake Louise, or between the silentlittle tarn of Wenkchemna, and the peaceful lovelinessof OHara Lake. But the distinctive characteristicsof every scene, easily observed and strongly felt asthey are, become elusive as dream visions, ephemeralas flowers whose petals fall at the slight touch of thereached-out hand, once you try to describe were usel
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