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148 Twin Buttes—Name: Local. Earliest name of Mt. Mackenzie and its shoulder, Mt. Tilley. (See Mt. Mackenzie.)

Twin Butte Station—Name: By the C. P. R. Company in relation to Twin Buttes. Altitude: Rail-level 1907 feet. Location: A siding on the railway 10 miles west of Albert Canyon Station and 12 miles east of Revelstoke. It is from this point that Mt. Mackenzie and its shoulder, Mt. Tilley, are seen to resemble twin buttes.

Twin Creek—Name: Local. Altitude: At the railway crossing 1890 feet. Location: Joins the Illecillewaet River from the south, Mt miles east of Twin Butte Station. Two streams of nearly equal volume flow through deep, narrow, heavily forested gorges and unite almost at the crossing. The bridge is a high, curving trestle, a dangerous place for track-walkers if overtaken by the train.

The Arrow Lakes.

From Revelstoke the Arrow Lakes Branch of the C. P. R. Railway follows the east bank of the Columbia for 27 miles to Arrowhead, the lake port whence the Company's steamers carry passengers into the Kootenay country by the Lake route which connects with the Crow's Nest Pass Railway. The Upper and Lower Arrow Lakes are expansions of the River, lying in a mountainous country of great natural beauty, with plenty of sport for hunter and angler. Between the Lakes, the River flows bending twice, and below the Lower Lake at West Robson it is spanned by a railway bridge. Below West Robson, the Kootenay River, which has made its great detour south of the Selkirks, joins the Columbia, flowing from its own expansion of Kootenay Lake. Since they flowed parallel from their sources, one north and the other south, passing each other by scarcely a mile, these two great rivers surrounding the Selkirk Mountains have run long, long ways. But here they meet at last, and the Columbia continues the journey south to the Pacific Ocean. An interesting history of the Columbia River has been written by Professor W. D. Lvman, Whitman College, Walla-Walla.

On the east side of Upper Arrow Lake are the Halcyon Hot Springs where there is a large hotel with cottages for guests. The most considerable mountain is Halcyon Peak opposite, a trail leading to its summit. Other hot springs named St. Leon are on the same side of the lake, and 23 miles down near its lower end is Nakusp, where the C .P. R. Company builds its lake steamers. The situation of Nakusp is interesting to geologists, being built on the moraine of an old glacier. From here a branch railway runs to Rosebcry on Slocan Lake, to Sandon and other towns in a rich silver-lead mining district, as far as Kaslo on Kootenay Lake across the country eastward. From West Robson, 89 miles below Nakusp, the Columbia and Kootenay Branch Railway follows the banks of the Kootenay River (good fishing water) to Nelson, connecting with a line to Procter on Kootenay Lake some 20 miles south of Kaslo. From Procter a steamer runs to Kootenay Landing south to connect with the Crow's Nest Pass Railway. West Robson at the Columbia Bridge is a railway centre, connecting Trail, the great smelting town, with Nelson and