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Rh Illecillewaet River—Name: By Walter Moberly, C.E.; an Indian word, meaning "swift water."

Location: The northerly outflow of the Illecillewaet Glacier. It flows westerly for about 50 miles and empties into the Columbia River 2 miles south of Revelstoke. It is a typical glacial stream fed by numerous torrents conveying the run-off from hundreds of glaciers. The principal tributaries are Loop Brook, Cougar Brook, Caribou Creek, Flat Creek, North Fork (Illecillewaet River) Albert Creek, Silver Creek. Twin Creeks and Greely Creek. The Illecillewaet affords fair fishing in places; and the steelhead or Gairdner's Trout (Salmo gairdner) a very gamey fish, provides good sport. Two miles easterly from Revelstoke the river is confined in a box canyon—a narrow gorge with perpendicular rock-walls carved in a series of buttresses by the swirling eddies of the torrent. A wildly picturesque spot.

Illecillewaet Station—Name: By C.P.R. Company, with reference to the Illecillewaet River.

Altitude: 2,710 ft. (rail level).

Location: On the line of the railway, 6½ miles east of Albert Canyon Station and 15 miles west of Glacier. Here was once a busy mining hamlet: but when the boom burst that built it, the little settlement was practically abandoned. Though a few small mines of silver-galena are still in operation, it is little more than a collection of deserted, tumble-down shacks.

Incomappleux River (Fish Creek)—Name: By Kootenay Indians, moaning "Fish River."

Location: Rises in Geikie and Van Horne Glaciers and flows west and south to the north-east arm of Upper Arrow Lake. (See under Fish Creek.)

Jeopardy Slide—Name: Local name given to a tract swept by Avalanches.

Location: On the west side of the Junction of Slick Creek with Incomappleux River. The mining trail over the Flat Creek Pass follows the valley of Slick Creek, leaving it at Jeopardy Slide to descend to the bed of the Incomappleux River. The Slide is very steep and overgrown with alders and nettles. The trail traverses it in zigzags. It is not in the least dangerous when in good condition.

'''Jove. Mt.'''—Name: By the Topographical Survey, with reference to Castor. Pollux, and Leda Peaks.

Altitude: 9,176 feet.

Location: Part of the rock-ridge above the Asulkan Glacier on the south-west: the isolated mass of which the three peaks, Castor, Pollux and Leda form component parts. It is separated from the Dome by Sapphire Col. Pollux, the highest peak, is 9,176 feet.

Kilpatrick, Mt.—Name: By the Topographical Survey, after T. Kilpatrick, a popular local superintendent of the C.P.R. at Revelstoke. who has for many years been in charge of the railway through the Selkirks—a difficult division, owing to the very heavy snowfall.

Altitude: 10,624 feet.

Location: A peak of the Purity Range; adjoins Mt. Wheeler