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Lake, 2,222 feet, most of drop being in last 6 miles.
The trail is through the Babine Range, a mountain system
trending north-west 125 miles, 20 to 40 miles wide, with
rugged, picturesque peaks, 7,000 to 9,000 feet, and
frequent small glaciers, forming the watershed between
Bulkley Valley and Babine Lake. Creeks and rivers head-
ing in the range have steep gradient, so low level passes
are uncommon, best being found in the southern extremity
where the range flattens and merges into the Northern
Interior Plateau. Distance from Hazelton to Fort Babine
is about 70 miles. The trail is in fair condition for pack-
horses.

From Babine Lake it crosses easterly 34 miles, rising to
3,600 feet and gradually falling to Takla Lake, 2,268 feet,
over fairly mountainous country of the low Frypan Range,
not well defined, the apparent mountainous nature being
partly due to Babine and Takla Lakes occupying valleys
maturely eroded *into the northern extension of the
Nechako Plateau country. The crossing on.Takla Lake is
by ferry-scow operated by an Indian when the lake is
fairly calm. At eastern shore is a store and trading-post
where, Guring hunting season, horses and guides can be
obtained. From Takla Lake the trail climbs to 3,400 feet
on the mountain-slopes, and crosses down Kenny Creek to
Tom Creek; then over a low summit to Silver Creek;
thence over rolling country to the flat divide separating
the headwaters of Nation and Omineca Rivers—the Arctic-
Pacific Divide here being scarcely noticeable—to west end
of Germansen Lake, then crossing over hills to Slate Creek
and thence to Manson, about 65 miles from Takla Lake.

The area between Takla Lake and Manson is more
mountainous than country farther south, forming the
transitional stage to mountainous country north of the
plateau, a rolling area broken by short isolated hills,
1,000 to 2,000 feet above valley-levels. To north and
west this broken country merges into more Prominent
mountains on headwaters of Omineca and Nation, and in
Babine Range farther west.

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