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Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



354-6 m. Goatfell— Alt. 2,857 ft. (868-5 m.). In this 

 567-3 km. vicinity the railway again enters an area of 

 Aldridge argillaceous quartzites, belonging to 

 the same block which was examined at Watts- 

 burg. 

 364-1 m. Kitchener — Alt. 2,393 ft. (727-4 m.). At a 

 582-5 km. point 3,642 feet (1107 m.) west of Kitchener, 

 a differentiated gabbro sill is exposed in the 

 rock cut. The hornblende gabbro, which 

 occupies the unexposed base of the sill, passes 

 by gradual transition into fine-grained granite, 

 which forms the interior of the sill. The 

 upper portion of the sill is composed of horn- 

 blende gabbro. 

 370-8 m. McNellie — At the crossing of Goat river, 

 593-3 km. about half a mile (i-i km.) west of McNellie, 

 the Aldridge argillaceous quartzites, which 

 are approximately horizontal, are exposed in 

 the canyon. At this point the river leaves 

 the hanging valley of its upper course, and 

 enters Kootenay river at grade about six miles 

 (10 km.) to the west. 

 376-2 m. Creston — Alt. 1,942 ft. (590-3 m.). At 

 601 -9 km. Creston the delta of Kootenay river is seen. 

 This is the same river which was crossed at 

 Wardner where it pursued a southerly course. 

 It turns in a semicircle in the State of Idaho, 

 U.S.A., and flows north into Kootenay lake 

 at Kootenay Landing. 



From Creston the railway runs in a north- 

 westerly direction along the western edge of 

 Kootenay Lake valley, (Purcell Trench). At a 

 point 8-7 miles (13-9 km.) north-west of Cres- 

 ton, the first granite intrusion is met with, and 

 occurs cutting the argillaceous quartzites of the 

 Aldridge formation. As the train proceeds, 

 the amount of granite exposed becomes greater 

 until at Sirdar, the southwestern edge of the 

 West Kootenay granite batholith is reached. 

 388-5 m. Sirdar — From Sirdar the railway crosses the 

 601-6 km. delta of the Kootenay and arrives at Kootenay 

 Landing. 



