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Station? Perhaps, when this spot was upon the 

 mountain side, as the great River Fuca swept 

 past in the bottom of the valley. Can we find 

 along the shore or in the forest any evidence 

 whatever upon which to form an answer to the 

 question? 



The answer is nearer than we think. The 

 Station building, the Sea Palms, stands upon a 

 mass of clay, sand and gravel, with some large 

 boulders within it which could have been formed 

 in no other way than by the agency of glacial 

 ice. It is till or unmodified drift. It contains 

 many kinds of rock material wholly foreign to 

 this part of the coast, of rocks not known to 

 occur within the drainage basin of the creek 

 quietly flowing past the laboratories. Again, 

 the material is arranged in the manner wave 

 action is never known to transport and deposit 

 pebbles and boulders. 



Elsewhere, repeatedly such material is found. 

 Beyond the boundary of this particular shore 

 line, glaciated rock surfaces show striae of glacial 

 origin, — enough to establish the prevalence, at 

 some time in the past, of a lower temperature 



