Snow a hundred or more feet deep in places covers his rocky sides.

Here we can see where glaciers were born in the early days when Tallac was several thousand feet higher than it now is.
Below us is the emerald-ringed bay, with its romantic little island at the west end, and nearby the joyously-shouting Eagle Creek as it plunges over the precipice and makes the foam-flecked Eagle Falls.

Our road here was blasted through some fiercely solid and hostile rock.
One boulder alone that stood in the way weighed (it was estimated by the engineers) from 800 to 1000 tons.

Fifty cases of highly explosive powder were suitably placed all around it.

Excursion steamers took hundreds of people from all parts of the Lake to see the explosion, and at the proper moment, while everybody held his breath, the fuses were fired, the blasts took effect, the rock flew down to the level beneath, shattered into four great masses.