"We were now on the watershed of the mountains, the great axis
of America; a few steps farther and l gave a loud shout as I caught the
first glimpse
in a deep
valley, as it were at my feet, of a feeder of the Pacifc Ocean. It was the
Flathead River, a tributary of the Columbia.
At the same moment the shots of my men's guns echoing among the rocks announced the passage of the first white man over the Kootanie Pass."
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