Identifier: americapicturesq03cookuoft (find matches)
Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, Coates
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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gnificent snow-covered peaks all about, their saw-like edges, gauntcrags and almost denuded surfaces justifying theirname of the Rockies. BANFF. The display of mountain scenery along the Cana-dian Pacific line in passing through the Rockies isthe finest in North America, coming largely from twocauses, each contributing to the grandeur and iin-pressiveness of the view. The width of the RockyMountain ranges in Alberta and British Columbia isnot much over three hundred miles, while in theUnited States they arc scattered and spread overa thousand miles of space with intervening tame-ness. The railway passes also are lower in BritishColumbia, so that the adjacent peaks rise higherabove the valleys, making them really grandermountains for the spectator, who is thus brought tothe very bases of such stalwart peaks as IMountStephen and )\Iount Sir Donald, rearing their snow-covered summits on high for a mile and a half aboveliis head. )>oth in concentration and elevation, as ^^ miPer, Mantt
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BANFF. 480 well as l)y tli(^ territic \vililn<\s.s of tlio Kicking Ilorsoaiiaiitf Hot Springs, -whicli, witli theirenviroiunent, make the ^Canadian Rocky )^^ountainsPark. This reservation covers the Bow liiver\alley and adjacent mountains. The winding riverconies from its gh-icicr sources in th.e west tlirougli abroad deep lissure. This is crossed almost at rightangles by another valley, having the Spray Rivercoming up from the south through it to join the Bow,while to the north tlie floor-level of this valley ishigher, but without any distinctive stream. Thesevallevs and their enclosing peaks arc all formed on ascah* (»f stupendous magnificence, yet so clear is theatmosplien; that distance is dwarfi(l, making (Ik^views perfect. (Joing down to the river baid<, wherethe deep, trough-like gorges co

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