On the Roof of the Rockies: The Great Columbia Icefield of the Canadian Rockies

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Page 144 - A new world was spread at our feet; to the westward stretched a vast ice-field probably never before seen by human eye, and surrounded by entirely unknown, unnamed, and unclimbed peaks.
Page 144 - ... entirely unknown, unnamed, and unclimbed peaks. From its vast expanse of snows the Saskatchewan Glacier takes its rise, and it also supplies the head-waters of the Athabaska; while far away to the west, bending over in those unknown valleys glowing with the evening light, the level snows stretched, to finally melt and flow down more than one channel into the Columbia River, and thence to the Pacific Ocean.
Page 208 - Malta, are unendurably defective, as the strength of a chain is that of its weakest link.
Page 71 - An' walk de hin' deck too He call de crew from up de hole He call de cook also. De cook she's name was Rosie, She come from Montreal, Was chambre maid on lumber barge, On de Grande Lachine Canal. De win' she blow from nor'-eas'-wes', De sout' win' she blow too, W'en Rosie cry 'Mon cher captinne, Mon cher, w'at I shall do?
Page v - Byron Harmon who, through his photographs, has given the Canadian Rockies to the World.

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