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146 is uncessary. View: The summit commands an extensive view of the Columbia Valley, the numerous channels and islands displayed in detail; also, a striking view of Mt. Begbie and other massifs of the Gold Range with their glaciers and snowfields. Mt. Cartier is frequented by goat and caribou. Mr. Wheeler reported some excellent goat hunting on this mountain while making a survey. Indeed it was not hunting so much as shooting, the juxtaposing being accidental.

Clach-na-coodin Range—Name: Evidently conferred by a Scotsman from Inverness, after the Clach-na-cudden, or "Stone of the Tubs" regarded as the palladium of Inverness. Altitude: 8,675 feet. Location: a group of mountains between Silver Creek, the Illecillewaet River and the Columbia above Revelstoke. At the crest of the range is a wide snowfield of from 10 to 15 square miles in area, reaching out in many arms and at different levels, and cut up in many parcels by separating rock-ridges. At the western extremity are rolling flowered alp-lands studded with irregular groves of spruce, fir, and hemlock and numerous pretty little lakes. Here Revelstoke found its park already laid out by nature without the intervention of any human landscape gardener.

Copeland Mt.—Name: For Mr. Copeland an Englishman. Altitude: 8,500. Location: In the Gold Range, west of the Columbia and north of Mt. McArthur; distance from Revelstoke, about 10 miles. Route: Reached by a trail up the Valley of the Jordan River which enters the Columbia a little north of the Railway. Time required: 2 days. Mt. Copeland has several glaciers.

Greeley Creek—Name: Origin unknown. Location: Joins the Illecillewaet River from the south-east 8 miles east of Revelstoke along the railway. A deep, heavily timbered valley similar to many others draining the lower slopes of the range on its western watershed. On the higher slopes caribou and small deer are plentiful. There is a small mill at the railway crossing which operates spasmodically. Route: Reached by a good wagon road following the Illecillewaet. a drive affording excellent views of Mt. Begbie, the Columbia Valley, and the town.

Illecillewaet Gorge—A box canyon 2 miles from the town. Route: Reached by following the railway track or by a wagon road. The river is confined in a canyon only a few feet wide with high, straight walls, at the end expanding into a pool made by a dam over which it falls in a cataract of some eighty feet, here is the '"City Power and Light Plant" of Revelstoke.

McArthur Mt.—Name: In honour of J. J. McArthur of the Dominion Topographical Survey; originally named Mt. Macpherson. Altitude: 7.800 feet. Location: West of the Columbia in the Gold Range, north of Mt. Begbie and south of Mt. Copeland; (1 miles distant from Revelstoke. Time required for climbing and returning: 14 hours.

Mackenzie Mt.—Name: By Order-in-Council after Sir Alexander Mackenzie, once Premier of Canada. Altitude: S,0(14 feet. Location: ImmediateyImmediately [sic] east of the junction of the Columbia and Illecillewaet Rivers; 5 miles south-east of Revelstoke. A shoulder of the mountain (Altitude: 7,718 feet) having the appearance from the valley of a separate peak, was named Mt.