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En Route Home, Thursday March 17
was up at daybreak and had breakfast before
getting to Field at 8.15. The day is clear and the mists
are clearing brilliantly in the snow covered dress. To
the north of Field is Bayfers, and it has brilliant
^not
it is in the morning sun. All the mist are of stratified
rocks and of Cambrian and Ordovician age into
the Silurian also.
Mt Stephen
Farther east and on to the south stands grand,
and the strata are lifted in an anticline or in fault
relation. To the south are Mt Ogden and Catho-
dral Mountain, and in front the R.R. turns a corner.
(up to 8.30 A.M)
During the last 12 hours we have come 214
miles and have risen from 1288' to 4075' or a rise
of 2787 feet. This is why we are making only about
18 miles per hour. We keep on rising to the station
Pan of Mt Stephen
Kicking Horse at 5332'. Here is the continental divide
and the boundary between British Columbia and Alberta.
The waters for the Pacific and Hudson Bay.
Lake Minus station is at 5050 but the hotel further
along beside the lake is at 5670'. All is in deep snows and
the steam snow plows have been along clearing the track.
The scenery is very grand.