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I am sitting in the Observation Car all the way
(The last station on the Rockies)
from Field to Radnor a distance of 114 miles and I
see the Rocky Mts one after another span into the distance
on my east. What a grand sight it all is to traverse
these out of stratified rocks without any green masses,
and away from the basal Cambrian into the Cutaceous.
In places the strata are almost horizontal and elsewhere in
grand arches and dolours and again almost vertical (New
Face). In all my life I have never seen folded out
structures so clearly revealed. It is the other extreme
of the grand Canyon of the Colorado. And today
the grandeur is greater because of the sunny day
with all the mt coral mist snow cut off by bare
my shaded
spaces and the dark green of the Amifla forest. I sat
for four hours enthralled, hardly able to read the
gelriged guide of the Canadian Rail Express a
the railway guide. The girl got other to map
these out must be an alpine climber, and my
Jale cannot get is to do it. But what a repetition
a song - child make her in working out in
detail to stratigraphic succession.