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Hot Spring island, Queen Charlotte Islands. — No analysis of the 

 thermal waters from the spring on this island is available, the only in- 

 formation at hand is that found in the report on the Queen Charlotte 

 Islands, by Dr, G. M. Dawson, (Geol. Survey Rep., 1878-9, p. 22 B). 

 " On the south side of Hot Spring Island is the spring from which it 

 has been so named. Its situation is easily recognized by a patch of 

 green, mossy sward, which can be seen from a considerable distance. 

 Steam also generally hovers over it. The actual source of the water is 

 not seen, but is probably not far from the inner edge of the mossy 

 patch. * * I had no thermometer reading sufficiently high to take the 

 temperature of the warmest streams, in which the hand could scarcely 

 be held with comfort. * * The water has a slight smell of sulphuretted 

 hydrogen, and a barely perceptible saline taste. The stones over 

 which it flows, in some places show traces of a whitish deposit, and the 

 streams and pools are choked with a slimy confervoid growth." 



Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. — In Geol. Surv. Rep., 1872-73, p. S2, 

 is an analysis of a saline water, from the so-called " Salt Spring at 

 Nanaimo." The water, according to Mr. Jas. Richardson, who col- 

 lected the specimen, issues from the coal-bearing strata near the 

 Douglas seam, and had, in 1872, an estimated flow of about 3,500 

 gallons per diem. The Hudson Bay Co., prior to that date, had 

 erected a building near the spring with the intention of manufacturing 

 salt from the water, but the enterprise was abandoned, probably on 

 account of the impurities the product would contain. 



Chloride sodium 39'ii7 Carbonate iron traces 



" potassium '627 Alumina '038 



" calcium io"049 Silica '038 



" magnesium '135 



Sulphate lime i '803 In 1000 parts of water 52'I54 



Carbonate lime "347 Specific gravity i ;o39-oo 



Shuswap Lake. — In Geol. Surv. Rep., 1877-78, p. 25 B, Dr. G. 

 M. Dawson describes a spring on the Spallumsheen Arm, Shuswap 

 Lake. The spring is known to the Indians as " Pil-pil-poopil," and 

 flows into a shallow bay. No data regarding the character of the water 

 are available, beyond the fact that it has a faint, ferruginous taste, and 

 traces of sulphuretted hydrogen. The temperature of the water as it 

 comes to the surface of tbe bay was, in August, 1877, 70*^ F. 



