A GENERAL VIEW OF PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., PACIFIC TERMINU:

of praise swells into a sublime chorus, compelling us by the mere
preponderance of evidence to listen and to learn.

Only recently, before the Royal Geographical Society in Lon-
don, Mr. A. Harrison told some startling stories of the North-
west. He had been in search of an Arctic continent but had
traveled for the most part through a land of green fields and run-
ning brooks. The fields were unfenced and “far flung” to be sure,
but wherever he found a Hudson’s Bay Post, a mission or the
habitation of man, there he found vegetables “such as are grown
in one’s garden at home,” wheat and barley, marsh grass on the
moorlands, and bunch grass on the plateaus. He found much
valuable timber, and endless indication of coal and oil. He sug-
gests a railway from Edmonton north to the Athabasca, another
from Prince Albert to Fort McMurray, and a third to the Peace
Be which would open a waterway 600 miles’ to Great Slave

ake.

From Fort Providence to the (Arctic) Red River (Lat. 67
deg. 26 min., long. 134 deg. 4 min.), a distance of 900 miles,
Mr. Harrison found the navigation exceedingly simple, and the
whole stretch of country thus irrigated, he found “full of vegeta-
tion.” “Tt will, in my opinion,” he said, “one day be settled.”

There are mountain cliffs of copper in the Atlin Districts in the
northwest corner of British Columbia, so nearly pure copper that

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