To Banff, Oct. 14 Last January then since 1910. At Ottertail (below) many moose tracks or sandbars of river, and the we saw one moose. Broad bottoms grown to thick cutworms novel of spruces and birch and aspen. 2:50 p.m. – Out of field – climbing stream milky-blue, distributed over a broad glacial wash-plain. 7:00 p.m. – Got into Banff at 6, and repaired to the King Edward Hotel, in which we are installed. Saw nothing of the higher Rockies; it was snowing as we came over the Great Divide (5332 ft. alt.); but latter snow was yet lying at so low level. But the clouds hung low. On a lake at the top of the Knickerbocker Horse Grade, we saw 127 ducks (looked like eoters); there were the only birds seen since Revelstoke. As we approached Banff we saw a good many elk, some close by the tracks showing little or no interest in the train. We are astonished at the small stature of the trees on this side of the Divide – very small lody-poles (apparently) in close stand.