Identifier: onheadwatersofp00hawo (find matches)
Title: On the headwaters of Peace River : a narrative of a thousand-mile canoe trip to a little-known range of the Canadian Rockies
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Haworth, Paul Leland, 1876-1938
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Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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Cabix of a trapper who went to the war.
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The largest log jam that i recall lies some distance below Pete Toys Bar. BUCKING THE FINLAY 107 and many have been given a high polish by the endlessaction of water. I am a great admirer of boulder wallsand pillars, and it was a source of real regret to me thatI could not select a few carloads of those gorgeouslybeautiful stones for use in building a boulder-concretehouse! The bars, unless they lie where they are swept cleanevery year by swift high water, do not long remain bar-ren. The seeds of balsam-poplar are profusely scatteredthere by the agencies of nature, and in a few years thebar is covered with a dense thicket. Spruce, too, findsa foothold, and in a few decades a fine forest standswhere the river once ran. Meanwhile the river has been careering about, tear-ing down forest elsewhere, but there comes a time whenit once more shifts back toward its old location and be-gins undermining the new forest. In hundreds of placesthe traveller on the Finlay sees in banks that are being

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