Northern Drift from the Rocky Mountains. 823 
ders and erratic blocks* have even attracted the notice of the In- 
which they live. One huge angular block, on the Snoqualami 
Prairie, has a tradition attached to it, to the effect that at one 
time it was suspended from the sky but was cast adrift to eart 
on account of the wrath of the Supreme Being, being roused at 
_ licentiousness of a minor god and his myrmidons who for the 
ime being were disporting themselves on it! Not far from the 
or a of the Peninsula of Saanich off the coast of Vancouver's 
Island, there are several large boulders—{apparently rounded by 
the waves and not by ice action?) which aboriginal tradition 
assert to have been some old witches turned into stone. My 
canoe-men in passing them used not unfrequently to stop there, 
and throw water on them, shouting: “Give us a wind, you old 
jade!” and as ‘occasionally an afternoon breeze does not spring 
up in that region after the midday summer calms, the supersti- 
tion obtained with them a semblance of belief, and so got hande 
on to posterity clothed in all the hoary sanctity of antiquity. 
roovings and other unequivocal marks of general ice action 
are not wanting in Washington os either. Hven with 
the superficial glance we were enabled to give the subject in 
ed journeys over that region, for other purposes, we obsery- 
ed not a few of such deep unmistakable i¢e planings. And in 
a note pare recently from my friend and former traveling 
companion, Mr. Edmund T. Coleman, (well known as the author 
of the felis “Scenes from the Snow Fields of Mont Blanc,” and 
who may therefore be supposed to know ice markings) he states, 
though with no view to combating the theory in hand, which 
indeed .he knew ee about si 
Indeed in crossing the “ ~ ” at the entrance of Skidegate 
*By “boulders” I mean to de unded worn blocks of stone =— 
of 
or bergs) without having been age ms erosion. The necessity of the abso is 
first is local 
fice 
_ + Thave deseribed t ir geograph y in the Proceedings of the Royal Geograph- 
ical Society of fore for 1869. Some remarks on their geology will likewise be 
found in the same place. 
