. On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies . ong, there flowed a perfectly im-mense, glistening glacier. That is what makes the Quadacha white, concededJoe. There could be no doubt about it. I had realizedever since seeing the river that it would require a good-sized rock-mill to grind up enough silt to color such alarge stream as the Quadacha, but here was a mill amplybig enough for the job. We were forty or fifty miles from it, eighty at leastas one would travel, yet it loomed up far and away themost notable
. On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies . ong, there flowed a perfectly im-mense, glistening glacier. That is what makes the Quadacha white, concededJoe. There could be no doubt about it. I had realizedever since seeing the river that it would require a good-sized rock-mill to grind up enough silt to color such alarge stream as the Quadacha, but here was a mill amplybig enough for the job. We were forty or fifty miles from it, eighty at leastas one would travel, yet it loomed up far and away themost notable phenomenon in that whole magnificentpanorama. It is the biggest thing in the whole Finlaycountry. I venture to predict that when the glacier hasbeen more closely examined it will be found to be oneof the biggest, if not the very biggest, in the whole RockyMountain system. From our post on Observation Peak the great glacierlay io° east of north by compass, but since the compassin this region has a variation of 33° to eastward, theglacier really lay 43° east of north. The glacier is, I repeat for emphasis, a vast river of. o ir- z X THE GREAT GLACIER 183 ice, flowing down a great wide valley between two moun-tains. We were too far to make out much in detail,but, looking through our glasses, the ice appeared to beof great height, and the snow-field behind It of immenseextent. Beyond question, the whole is an immense affaircovering many square miles of territory. In addition to the great peak and the big glacier, wediscerned several other features of interest. On theNorth Fork of the Quadacha, or Warneford River, thereis at least one, perhaps two or three much smaller gla-ciers. The most notable of these lay 12° west of north bycompass, which means about 21° east of the true this glacier would be considered notable in theRockies of the United States, but it seemed a pygmycompared with the big one. About 30 south of the trueeast, and apparently on the extreme eastern
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