. Through the Mackenzie Basin : a narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 . he foot of the Boiler Rapid, the next in our ascent, andso called from the wrecking of a scow containing a boilerfor one of the Hudsons Bay Companys steamers. It wasthe most uncomfortable of camps, the night being close, andfilled with the small and bloodthirsty Athabasca mosquito,by all odds the most vicious of its kind. This rapid isstrewn with boulders which show above water, making ita very nice and toilsome thing to steer and track a boatsafely over it, but the tracking path itself is
. Through the Mackenzie Basin : a narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 . he foot of the Boiler Rapid, the next in our ascent, andso called from the wrecking of a scow containing a boilerfor one of the Hudsons Bay Companys steamers. It wasthe most uncomfortable of camps, the night being close, andfilled with the small and bloodthirsty Athabasca mosquito,by all odds the most vicious of its kind. This rapid isstrewn with boulders which show above water, making ita very nice and toilsome thing to steer and track a boatsafely over it, but the tracking path itself is stony and firm,a fortunate thing at such a place. There are no exposuresof rock at the foot of this rapid; but along its upper partruns a ledge of asphalt-like rock as smooth as a street pave-ment, with an outer edge as neatly rounded as if done witha chisel. This was the finest bit of tracking path on theriver, excepting, perhaps, the great pavement beneafh thecliff at the Long Rapids. In this region the river scenery changes to a successionof cut-banks, exposed in all directions, and in almost all. Tracking up an Athabasca rapid -*tf?fe^
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