Identifier: worldsstoryhisto11tapp (find matches)
Title: The world's story; a history of the world in story, song and art, ed. by Eva March Tappan
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930 Ploetz, Karl Julius, 1819-1881 Tillinghast, William Hopkins, 1819-1881 Dresser, Horatio W. (Horatio Willis), b. 1866
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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y man-ner. The train is j&rst running eastward, disappears 228 A GLACIER IN THE SELKIRK MOUNTAINS A GLACIER IN THE SELKIRK MOUNTAINS The Selkirk Range occupies the region inclosed betweenthe great loop of the Columbia and the Kootenay rivers,and is composed of a complexity of minor ranges inclosingdeep, forest-clad valleys and rising to rugged peaks adornedby silvery white snow-fields and glaciers. The forests, owingto the greater moisture deposited on the Selkirk Range, aremore luxuriant than those in the Rockies, and for similarreason the snow-fields and glaciers are more extensive. Thescenery, consequently, is superb, and as the mountains arenot of such stupendous magnitude as to preclude explorationby the ordinary tourist, there are few regions in the worldwhere the lover of the picturesque can make more delightfulexcursions. At the same time, there are peaks to be scaledand glaciers to be traversed which will call forth the bestabilities of the mountaineer. — Karl Baedeker.
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CANADIAN PACIFIC OVER THE SELKIRKS round the comer and then is making its way in theopposite direction a few feet below, to round anothercurve and once more steams eastward, this alternaterunning backwards and forwards continuing until thevalley of the Illecillewaet River is gained, by whichtime the train has traveled over six miles of metals tomake an actual advance of only two miles. Issuing from the Selkirks, another barrier, the GoldRange, had to be traversed; but this was a comparativelyeasy matter, as the Eagle Pass is a natural causewayamong the peaks for the iron road, although its discoverytaxed Walter Moberly to an extreme degree. In thispass the engineers, driving the line from the east, metthe forces advancing from the west. They shook handsat a point known as Craigellachie, where the connectionbetween the two arms was made ■—■ where the goldenspike was driven home — and the Pacific seaboardwas brought into touch with the Atlantic throughCanadian territor)\ THE CAN

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