Field Notebook: Maine, New Hampshire 1925
Page 120
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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.