# Glaciers of the Rockies and Selkirks, 2nd. ed. With Notes on Five Great Glaciers of the Canadian National Parks

Author: Coleman, A. P. (Arthur Philemon), 1852-1939; Wheeler, A. O. (Arthur Oliver), 1860-1945 [Contributor]

Genre: Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50986

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## Summary

The traveller going westwards from the prairie finds the way blocked by a grim wall of cliffs rising 7,000 or 8,000 feet above the sea and justifying the name of the “Rockies” given to our greatest chain of mountains. Toward the end of the summer these desolate precipices are snowless and except for a glimpse of white peaks through some pass there is scarcely a suggestion of the glacier region within. Then the train enters the “Gap” and before long the summits around show fields or patches of midsummer snow; and as one draws nearer to the heart of the Rockies there is blue ice to be seen clinging to the cliffs or reaching as glaciers down into the wooded valleys, and one is thrilled with...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glaciers-of-the-rockies-and-selkirks-2nd-ed-with-notes-on-five-cd94565b/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/glaciers-of-the-rockies-and-selkirks-2nd-ed-with-notes-on-five-cd94565b/chapters/2/index.md)