146 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
. Extracts from a paper on the Geography of — Columbia and 
oes Doidlision of the Cariboo Gold District ; by Lieut. H. S. Parmer, 
R.E.—Lieut. Palmer mentioned that since the first tbe of gold in 
British Columbia in 1858, fresh deposits had gradually been traced far- 
ther and farther north ward till ultimately the well-known fields of Cariboo 
had been reached, 500 miles from the mouth of the Fraser. Entruste ted 
with the task of a gener ‘al survey, he details the geographical outline of 
the colony, the seaboard of which extends 500 miles, protected through- 
out almost its entire length by Vancouver and Queen Charlotte islands. 
This seaboard is indented in the most extraordinary manner by deep 
and arms of the sea, sateen an extent of sheltered inland navigation, 
and an actual ae ri igre et such as are nowhere equalled on i! 
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aaatinis being the almost entire absence of peaks. The rivers on the j 
east side are —- longer and less impetuous than those on the west; 
but occasionally some of them rise on the plateau, and thread the moun- 
tains till they fall ints the sounds. Above some of these, giaciers are 
said to have been seen’; but nothing authentic seems to be known on 
t. 
The apne of the table-land, which is well suited for pastoral pur 
poses, is described in high terms; the rivers having occasionally hollowed 
out for heintebecs channels of immense depth, in which occur splendid 
me of which are mere fissures ;_ in other cases running through 
broad-terraced valleys, or in vales of gently undulating slopes covered. = 
with grass and a vst with yellow pines. Here and there : 
are pretty sheets of water, which, like the rivers, are well supplied with : 
numerous kinds of fresh- ie fish. Above 3000 feet, the grass, which 
gradually gets less coat with the increased elevation, gives place to 4 : 
universal mantle of r. Here farming has proved m erately 
successful at an slooatioe "of 2100 feet, but Lieut. — doubts — 
a considerable time must not elapse ere enough grain 
the more sheltered and wall ivigate valleys, to admit vat its nding 6 
market at the mines or settlement 
Just beyond begins the nena mountainous range, which extends 
without a break to the watershed of the Rocky Mountains, which as far 
- north as the Peace river, flowing eastward, forms the eastern boundary 
et oe on “oy side, The only portion of this unexplored regia 
to be met, is Cariboo. 
w Garibon i fies in in ie elbow formed abe the upper waters of the Fraser, 
and is bounded on the south by the Quesnelle river. A marked phe 
