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Title: Touring Alaska and the Yellowstone
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Taylor, Charles M. (Charles Maus), 1849-
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Publisher: Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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eemed to increase ingrandeur and beauty. As we drew near Banff wefelt that we were entering the ideal of natures as-pirations. Here we had our first glimpse of CascadeMountain, whose noble and majestic dome piercesthe clear blue ether at an elevation of 9,796feet. Its snowy summit reflects the rays of thesun with startling brilliance, and the long seamsmade by its constantly flowing cascades are nearlyfilled with snow and ice which cast forth dazzlingrainbow lights almost to the base of the mountain. As we pushed farther into the valley, we were sur-rounded by still greater grandeur: I can comparethis magnificent scene only to the rocket windingits serpentine pathway through heavenly space untilat last it bursts, and all the upper world is aglowwith sparkling gems. Banff seems to be the cul-mination of this wonderful experience, for here wewere surrounded by the master work of the Crea-tor. This is the home of the giants: here in splen-did solitude stand the aristocrats of nature, and
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From Montreal to the Rocky Mountains 45 none may dispute their sovereign right to rule therealm. Here are Sulphur Mountain, 8,000 feet inheight, Goat Range, 8,500 feet, Rundle Mountain,9,798 feet, the Three Sisters, 9,704, 8,810, and 8,860feet, Fairholm, 9,275 feet, Peechee, 9,585 feet, Inglis-maldie, 9,685 feet, the Vermilion and SanbackRanges more than 9,000 feet, and the BourgeanMountains also over 9,000 feet. Is it strange that thebrain almost reels in the presence of a glory andgrandeur utterly beyond description ? As the conductor shouted the simple monosyllable Banff the train stopped, and the man to whomour thrilling experiences were an everyday affair,with an impassive countenance, assisted the pas-sengers to alight. The palaces of Nature, whose vast wallsHave pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalpsAnd thrond eternity in icy hallsOf cold sublimity, where forms and fallsThe avalanche—the thunderbolt of snow!—All that expands the spirit, yet appals,Gather around these summit

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