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Straight up in rear towered long steep slopes 

 covered with great pines and cedars, which seemed to 

 reach, as is often the case on the delta of the Eraser, a 

 height of over 300 ft. 



At such trees, George would occasionally point 

 and mutter " big canoe," meaning that out of such a 

 tree had been carved the canoe in which we were then 

 rowing. 



Bute Inlet, with its great trees, and its unsurpassed 

 scenery, winding its way into the heart of the moun- 

 tains like some mighty river, impresses the observer 

 with a kind of terror. "Were it a European lake 

 instead of an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, unseen except 

 by the lumberer or the hunter, its reputation would 

 have been accomplished. The map to which I have 

 referred in the various names of promontories, peaks, 

 and islands, is that issued from our Hydrographic 

 Office and numbered 580, and called "North America, 

 West Coast ; Vancouver I. and British Columbia ; 

 Strait of Georgia, sheet 2 ; north-east part of Texada I. 

 to Johnstone Strait, including Toba, Bute, and Lough- 

 borough Inlets. Surveyed by Captain G. H. Eich- 

 ards, E.N., assisted by Lieutenant E. C. Mayne, &c., 

 1860, with additions in 1864." The most conspicu- 

 ous peaks received names when our Admiralty Survey 

 charted the coast. One would naturally like to know 

 which Smith and what Evans have been immortalised 

 by having been made the godfathers of two of the 

 grandest mountains of the group, and as the names 

 are not uncommon the reasons might have been noted 



