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Title: Bird-nesting in north-west Canada
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Raine, Walter, 1861-1934
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Toronto : Printed by Hunter, Rose and Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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However, this spice of dan—, or rather this danger spicedwith a chance of escape, is very fascinating: and, if you wouldfain be fascinated to your hearts content, seek the RockyMountains or British Columbia, and enjoy your whim. And such fields for sport! not pen, nor brush, nor tonguecan convey the proper idea of the sublimity of those marvel-lous mountains; they are something too imposing for merewords: they must be seen and studied. One must live amongthem and watch the glories of sunlight upon their everlasting-snows and glaciers; must climb their steeps and breathe thecold, thin atmosphere of those dizzy elevations, and train hiseyes to measure soaring pinnacles and dark abysses ere he canrealize their stupendous grandeur. One must hear the thun-derous voice of the whirling storms amid their peaks ; theavalanche tearing the forests from their native slopes ; theavulsion of crag and giant bowlder from buttresses frowningdarkly above the clouds, and the booming echoes of waves of
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In North-West Canada. 109 mighty sound breaking against the walls of unmeasured ravinesere the full power of those matchless monuments of the old-time war of forces is impressed upon the mind. And then theglory of laying low the game that haunts them. Right welldid the Indian hunter know what tested manhood, when firsthe wrenched the great scimeter-shaped claws from the broadfore-paw of the dead grizzly and strung them around his neckas a token to prove a man. Things have chang-ed with time,the rifle has supplanted the bow, but nothing has supplantedthe grizzly; he is there yet, and king of the wilds, and hisclaws are yet the proudest ornament the savage can wear, andhis skin the most valued trophy of the white sportsman. Upabove the grizzlys range are found the white goats and thefamous big-horn mountain sheep, both eagerly sought after bysportsmen ; the latter especially, owing to the extreme beautyof their heads. Outside of the bears the sportsman runs little chance ofgetting into

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