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Kiiomeu-es rocks. Farther to the northwest the same 

 rocks form the southern part of Saltpsring 

 island, whose southern slope is another fault 

 line scarp, developed along a reversed strike 

 fault parallel to that described above, and which 

 has thrust the metamorphics against the 

 Nanaimo sediments to the south. These sedi- 

 ments, which are folded into a closed syncline, 

 overturned to the southwest, are exposed on the 

 small islands to the south of Moresby passage, 

 among which the steamer sails. 



Leaving these islands the steamer enters the 

 more open waters of Bayan bay. To the west 

 is the town of Sidney, on the southeastern 

 lowland of Vancouver island. This lowland, 

 called here the Saanich peninsula, since it is 

 separated by Saanich inlet from the upland 

 of Vancouver island is underlain by the Saanich 

 granodiorite, most o which is greatly fractured 

 and altered. A less fractured portion of the 

 granodiorite forms Mt. Newton, altitude 1,000 

 feet (305 m.), the largest monadnock of the vici- 

 nity, seen conspicuously to the southwest of 

 Sidney. The sky-line of the upland which is 

 the result of the mature-dissection of the 

 uplifted Tertiary peneplain, is fairly even, the 

 only pronounced irregularities being the large 

 steep-sided valleys and occasional small monad- 

 nocks. 



From Sidney channel between James inland 

 on the west and Sidney island on the east, the 

 glacial deposits which mantle much of the 

 southeastern lowland of Vancouver island are 

 seen. Indurated rocks are not exposed on 

 James island, and on Sidney island are exposed 

 only in the southern part. The deposits, 

 consisting of Maywood clays covered by Cordova 

 sands and gravels, are chiefly inter-glacial and 

 largely of marine origin. At the northern 

 end of Sidney island is a brick plant which uses 

 the Maywood clays. The inter-glacial deposits 

 are strewn with large glacial boulders and are 

 partly covered by the younger Vashon drift 

 They were in part eroded during the Vashon 



