 | 1873 - 660 pages
...description of the Rocky Mountains — which are brought to our mind's eye with wonderful vividness — " For the first three hours the trail continued at some...wooded, hill and Roche a Perdrix on our left, Roche a Meyette beyond, Roche Ronde in front, and a mountain above Lac Brule on our right. For half a mile... | |
 | Alpinisme - 1907 - 594 pages
...For the first three hours the trail continued at some distance east from the valley of the Athabaska, among wooded hills, now ascending, now descending,...across creeks where the ground was invariably boggy, and over fallen timber where infinite patience was required on the part of horse and man. Suddenly... | |
 | 1913 - 158 pages
...Fleming, Engineer-in-Chief of the Canadian Pacific and Intercolonial Railways. September nth. Away this morning at 6.15 am, and halted at i pm, after...a semicircle of five glorious mountains appeared. . . . For half a mile down from their summits, no tree, shrub, or plant covered the nakedness of the... | |
 | D. W. Oates - Canada - 1914 - 224 pages
...first range. It was a grand morning for mountain ON THE TRAIL TO WHITEMAN'S PASS, TROUT IAKE, ALBERTA scenery. For the first three hours the trail continued...a semicircle of five glorious mountains appeared. For half a mile down from their summits, no tree, shrub, or plant covered the nakedness of the three... | |
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... this morning at 6.15 AM, and halted at I PM, after crossing the Riviere de Violon or Fiddle river, when fairly inside the first range. It was a grand morning for mountain scenery. For the first three hours the trail continued at some distance east... 