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Title: The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ng on the left a seriesof turbulent cascades terminating in a fall which isvisible from the rotunda, though of course at this dis-tance less effective than from the river-bank. Belowthe falls the river hastens on in the direction of thePeechee Mountain, which forms the boundary wall ofthe valley east of the hotel and, with the wide ridge onthe right, is the most interesting sight in the whole Park.This ridge seldom presents the same appearance on suc-cessive days, and hardly two photographs of it are alike,owing to the fact that the melting snow, after a storm,constantly stripes and mottles it in different patterns.Though the ridge, Avhich is several thousand feet wide,seems to be absolutely perpendicular, the snow stillclings to it and j^aints it white, except in one section,near the summit, where a black, snowless streak runsacross horizontally, dividing the snow-wall into twosections. To the right of the hotel are some sharp-pointedpeaks inclining over each other, somewhat like the
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ACKOSS THE CANADIAN PACIFIC. 269 Three Brothers in the Yosemite Valley, playing leap-frog ; and to the left is the massive Cascade Mountain.The most important excursions for those whose time islimited to a day, are a trip by boat up the Bow River,as far as Vermilion Lake, in the morning, and a driveto Devils Head Lake in the afternoon. The Bow River excursion, which is made on a littlesteam-launch whenever a party is ready for it, has onlyone drawback, — the ugly, bristling corpses of charredpines on both sides of the river, the effects of a recentmost deplorable forest fire. Arrangements have beenmade with lumbermen for the removal of these charredtrunks, but it wll take years to finish the job, as thereare thousands of them. Fortunately there is alreadya new undergrowth, and in a few years the vigorousyoung trees will have covered up the stumps. In manyplaces, however, the green trees have been spared, andin these sections matchless views of the surroundingmountains may be obtaine

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