Puget Sound and British Columbia 



so much bland fog and dew and gentle laving rain, a 

 still finer development of some of the commonest 

 garden plants is reached. English honeysuckle seems 

 to have found here a most congenial home. Still 

 more beautiful were the wild roses, blooming in won- 

 derful luxuriance along the woodland paths, with 

 corollas two and three inches wide. This rose and 

 three species of spiraea fairly filled the air with fra- 

 grance after showers ; and how brightly then did the 

 red dogwood berries shine amid the green leaves be- 

 neath trees two hundred and fifty feet high. 



Strange to say, all of this exuberant forest and 

 flower vegetation was growing upon fresh moraine 

 material scarcely at all moved or in any way modified 

 by post-glacial agents. In the town gardens and 

 orchards, peaches and apples fell upon glacier-pol- 

 ished rocks, and the streets were graded in moraine 

 gravel; and I observed scratched and grooved rock 

 bosses as unweathered and telling as those of the 

 High Sierra of California eight thousand feet or more 

 above sea-level. The Victoria Harbor is plainly 

 glacial in origin, eroded from the solid; and the rock 

 islets that rise here and there in it are unchanged to 

 any appreciable extent by all the waves that have 

 broken over them since first they came to light to- 

 ward the close of the glacial period. The shores also 

 of the harbor are strikingly grooved and scratched 

 and in every way as glacial in all their characteristics 

 as those of new-born glacial lakes. That the domain 

 of the sea is being slowly extended over the land by 

 incessant wave-action is well known; but in this 



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