Image: The Rockies of Canada; (1909) (14577101009)

Description: Identifier: rockiesofcanad00wilc (find matches) Title: The Rockies of Canada; Year: 1909 (1900s) Authors: Wilcox, Walter Dwight, 1869- (from old catalog) Subjects: Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ^ ° sweeping upv and mo-mentarily hang ii were onan invisible airy cu eater vol-le, it burst througl spark-drops. >ch had ing ibeggt ^g- «g to a sun so to its ernoon. broken > for pony old me,—n So we took id sent hi mfort- vhile we resi iuiet, and stormy. on foot Mo nornin four Text Appearing After Image: a Scene of IRuggefc desolation 241 oclock. The gloom of early dawn, the morningchill, and a clouded sky had no cheering effect onour anticipations. Our plan was to traverse themountain-side till we should come to the south-east shoulder, where we had once observed theoutline of an apparently easy slope. At eleven oclock, we had reached a height ofnearly ten thousand feet and came to a vertical wall,about four hundred feet high, a barrier that com-pletely defeated us. At the base of this cliff therewas a narrow slope of loose broken limestone, andbelow this, another precipice. Utterly defeated inour attempt by this impassable barrier, I walkedalong the cliff base into a semicircular recess in alast vain reconnaissance, while Allen took photo-graphs of the scenery. Here I had a few moments of quiet contempla-tion of a scene that in its awful solitude has lefta deep impression on my memory. Some greatstones, dislodged as I moved, fell with a grindingsound over the edge, towards a narrow Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The Rockies of Canada; (1909) (14577101009)
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Author: Wilcox, Walter Dwight, 1869- [from old catalog]
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