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90 Valley, and can see Goat Falls close by the Caves of Cheops, the falls which drop into a hole in the ground and join the subterranean flow of Cougar Creek. Eoss Peak gives too an excellent view of Rogers Pass as far as the village, and of the Loop which is immediately below.

Route: Reached from Glacier House by following the railway track to the end of the Loop and then ascending. Climb: rock. Time required: 6 hours. Novices require a guide. The two cen tral peaks of the ridge between Ross Peak and Mt. Green are, as far as known, still unclimbed.

Ross Peak Station—Name: By C.P.R. Company, in relation to Ross Peak.

Altitude: 4,300 feet (rail level).

Location: A siding on the railway, miles west of Glacier House and between Cougar Mt. and Mt. Green.

Sandwich Islands—Name: From their use as a stopping place for luncheon, when ascending the Illecillewaet Glacier on the Sir Donald side.

Location: Rocks rising from the Glacier immediately west of Perley Rock.

Sapphire Col—Name: By Prof. C. E. Fay.

Altitude: 8,488 feet.

Location: The snow pass between Castor and The Dome. Exact ly at the crest of the col is a pool of water, clear as crystal, lying in a hollow of the snow. From the summit of Castor it shows in the sunlight a deep transparent blue and sparkles like a sapphire on a bed of soft white velvet.

First Ascent: By Messrs. Abbott, Fay and Thompson, in 1895.

Route: Reached from Glacier by the pony trail to Mt. Abbott, starting directly behind the hotel; then via Mt. Abbott Ridge, the north side of Mt. Afton and a traverse of the west slopes of the rampart and The Dome to the crest of the pass.

Time required: 5 hours. A return may be made by descending the Asulkan Glacier and taking the Asulkan trail, requiring 4 hours: for complete expedition, 9 hours. Either route may be taken to reach the col. It is an expedition providing a variety of mountaineering work with splendid views, and ought to become a popular one. Unless skilled climbers, a guide is necessary.

Selwyn Mt.—Name: First named Mt. Deville by W. S. Green after Dr. E. Deville, Surveyor General of Dominion Lands. As a moun tain in the Van Horne Range has also been called Mt. Deville, thw name was changed to Selwyn, after the late Dr. Selwyn, Director of the Geological Survey of Canada.

Altitude: 11,013 feet.

Location: The most easterly peak of the Dawson Range, rising: directly above Déville Glacier.

First Ascent: By Messrs. Topham and Forster in 1890.

First Ascent by a lady: Gertrude E. Benham in 1904.

Route: Reached from Glacier House via Asulkan Pass, Geikie Glacier, the right moraine of Dawson Glacier, and the east head-wall of the Dawson Amphitheatre. On reaching the crest of the headwall of the Dawson Amphitheatre, the snow-ridge to the south is ascended to the summit of the shale-topped elevation midway between