[2] This has since been done, the present area of the park being 423 square miles.
[3] Since the above was written Howard Palmer's Mountaineering and Exploration in the Selkirks has been published, making a very important addition to the scanty literature on the subject.
Transcriber's note
- Obvious punctuation and spelling errors repaired.
- Several compound words had dual spellings: They were changed to the predominant form as follows:
| châlet | → | chalet (p. 87 (twice)) |
| campfire | → | camp-fire (p. 213) |
| foot-holds | → | footholds (pp. 206, 207) |
| foot-hills | → | foothills (p. 208) |
| hand-holds | → | handholds (p. 207) |
| head-waters | → | headwaters (p. 76) |
| hill-side | → | hillside (pp. 186, 255) |
| north-east | → | northeast (p. 53) |
| north-west | → | northwest (pp. 53 (twice), 59) |
| south-east | → | southeast (p. 59) |
| south-west | → | southwest (p. 104) |
| spellbound | → | spell bound (p. 176) |
| water-fall | → | waterfall (p. 270 twice) |
| wildflowers | → | wild-flowers (p. 55) |
Other changes:
- Hasler to Häsler (pp. 138, 139)
- Schäffer to Schaffer (pp. 26, 187)
- Repeated chapter titles have been removed resulting in a page number missing at the start of each chapter.
- Paragraphs split by pictures were rejoined above the pictures.