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Title: Descriptive time tables; Soo-Atlantic, Soo-Winnipeg, Soo-Pacific, Soo-Spokane-Portland, Twin cities-Chicago, Chicago-Superior-Duluth-Ashland : scenic through car routes
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Sault Ste. Marie Railroad
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: (Minneapolis, Great Western Print. Co.)
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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the Axial Range, of which Sir Donald is the chief. Atthe right is the deep valley of the Illicillewaet, whichmakes its way westward by a devious course amongnumberless hoary-head moimtain monarchs, windingin leaps, cascades, and falls betwixt forests of trop-ical luxuriance, and clefts worn through ancientmorainal heaps. Directly ahead is the Great Glacierof the Selkirks. Passing a long snow-shed (notthrough it, for an outer track is provided, that thesummer scenery may not be lost) a sharp curvebrings the train in front of the Great Glacier, which isnow very near, at the left—a vast cascade of gleamingice—^falling 4,500 ft., from the summit of the snow ifield in which it has its source—one glacier of a group ;of glaciers—altogether, the ice fields of which the \Illicillewaet is one of a number of outlets, embracing (an area of about 10 square miles \ * .EastBound MilesfromVancvr 425 Mts. Mac-donald andHermit 425 Thesummitof theSel-kirks Over-Iokingthegorgeof theIllicil-lewaet
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Soo-Pacific True Scenic Route. 33 STATIONS Glacier House— The station and hotel at GlacierAlt. 4,093 ft. are within thirty minutes walk ofthe Tllicillewaet Glacier, from which,at the left, Sir Donald (10,808 ft.), rises a naked andabrupt pyramid, to a height of more than a mile anda half above the railway. This stately monolith wasnamed for Sir Donald Smith, one of the chief pro-moters of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Farther tothe left, looking from the hotel, are sharp peaks—-Uto,Eagle, Avalanche and Macdonald—second only toSir Donald. Rogers Pass and the snowy Hermitrange, the most prominent peak of which are calledthe Swiss Peaks, from the frequency with which bearsare met upon its berry-bearing slopes, are in full view.Again to the left, at the west end of the Hermit range,comes Cheops, and in the foreground, and far downamong the trees the Illicillewaet glistens across thevalley. Somewhat at the left of Cheops the shouldersof Ross Peak are visible over the wooded slope of

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