. Shores and Alps of Alaska . as the Queens birthday. We swept alongat a rate of thirty miles an hour through wildrocky scenery, stationed upon a kind of open Observation car, together with the brass band,which played selections as we proceeded. As seen from Calgary the range seems brokeninto the most fantastic shapes, from The DevilsHead in the north (which resembles the Matter-horn with the top broken off) to Mount Head inthe south. It was said that when the summit of The DevilsHead should fall (which has occurred), the countrywould pass from the possession of the StonyIndians into that of t
. Shores and Alps of Alaska . as the Queens birthday. We swept alongat a rate of thirty miles an hour through wildrocky scenery, stationed upon a kind of open Observation car, together with the brass band,which played selections as we proceeded. As seen from Calgary the range seems brokeninto the most fantastic shapes, from The DevilsHead in the north (which resembles the Matter-horn with the top broken off) to Mount Head inthe south. It was said that when the summit of The DevilsHead should fall (which has occurred), the countrywould pass from the possession of the StonyIndians into that of the white man. The people of this tribe are described as reliable 6 SHORES AND AUPS OF ALASKA. and honest; they have their villages at Horley,and arc expert as hunters and mountaineers. Theyhad just departed for their summers huntingtrip, or we should have taken a couple of themwith us. Almost within sight of Calgary lies the Gap, asthe gateway into the mountain valley of the Bowis named. The bold and eccentric contours of the. The Devils Lake. mountain walls on either hand increase as oneadvances nearer to the summit of the Pass. At Banff I remained till joined by L. and F.,camping some miles off at The Devils Lake forfour days entirely alone. The Rocky Mountains do not on the whole offergood trout-fishing. The Bow river from June tillAugust is charged with muddy snow-water. How- THE DEVILS LAKE. 7 ever, as every one agreed that at The Devils Lakethe water would be clear, and that it was sur-rounded by high mountains rarely visited andnever ascended, I decided to visit it, and got aman and a pack-horse to deposit me there after adangerous crossing of the swollen Devils Creek. No ripple either of breeze or moving fin * brokethe glassy surface of The Devils Lake, whichreflected the mountains round in water of such adeep azure blue, as to be almost sufficiently un-canny to account for its name, without taking intoconsideration the gloomy precipices which over-hang its sides. In fr
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