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glacial agencies. The town streets and the 

 roads are graded in moraine material, among 

 scratched and grooved rock-bosses that are 

 as unweathered and telling as any to be found 

 in the glacier-channels of Alaska. The harbor 

 also is clearly of glacial origin. The rock islets 

 that rise here and there, forming so marked a 

 feature of the harbor, are unchanged roches 

 moutonnees, and the shores are grooved, 

 scratched, and rounded, and in every way as 

 glacial in all their characteristics as those of a 

 newborn glacial lake. 



Most visitors to Victoria go to the stores of 

 the Hudson's Bay Company, presumably on 

 account of the romantic associations, or to 

 purchase a bit of fur or some other wild-In- 

 dianish trinket as a memento. At certain sea- 

 sons of the year, when the hairy harvests are 

 gathered in, immense bales of skins may be 

 seen in these unsavory warehouses, the spoils 

 of many thousand hunts over mountain and 

 plain, by lonely river and shore. The skins 

 of bears, wolves, beavers, otters, fishers, mar- 

 tens, lynxes, panthers, wolverine, reindeer, 

 moose, elk, wild goats, sheep, foxes, squirrels, 

 and many others of our "poor earth-born 

 companions and fellow-mortals" may here be 

 found. 



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