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"The swelling slopes of forest, the blue ice of the glaciers, and the dark purple precipices of Mount Bonney

"New views of strange castellated crags opened as I

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"The forest we found utterly demolished by a recent avalanche"

"At last the highest crest was in sight".

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Taking the rifle he descended to the snow-slope"

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PART OF THE SELKIRK RANGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA. At end of Book.

AMONG THE SELKIRK GLACIERS.

CHAPTER I.

"The food of hope

Is meditated action; robbed of this
Her sole support, she languishes and dies.
We perish also; for we live by hope
And by desire; we see by the glad light
And breathe the sweet air of futurity;
And so we live, or else we have no life."

WORDSWORTH.

Introductory. The idea suggested. My companion.—Preparations.

WHEN the British Association met in Canada in 1884, one of the most interesting excursions planned for the members was that provided by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company on the portion of their line then completed; to the summit of the Hector pass, or as it was then called, the Kicking Horse pass, in the Rocky Mountains. Amongst the members of that excursion were two gentlemen, Mr. Richard M. Barrington, and my cousin, the Rev. Henry Swanzy, who, not satisfied with the interesting scenes revealed to them

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