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Miles and 

 Kilometres. 



132 m. Hammond — Alt. 21 ft. (6-4 m.). At Ruskin 



212-4 km. the Fraser is joined by Stave river. Six miles 

 (9-6 km.) up the latter valley is a hydro- 

 electric plant, generating at present 26,000 

 horse-power. Exposures of post-Glacial stream 

 deposits are now frequently seen in the railway 

 cuts. These stand at a level of 40 feet (12-2 m.) 

 or more above the present level of the stream. 

 140 m. Westminster Junction — Alt. 28 ft. (8-5 m.). 



225-3 km. 



144 m. Port Moody — Alt. 13 ft. (3-9 m.). Crossing 



231-7 km. Pitt river near Westminster Junction, the rail- 

 way leaves the Fraser river and passes over a 

 low divide to the head of Burrard inlet, the 

 southern shore of which it then follows to 

 Vancouver. 



147 m. Barnet — In the cliffs along the 



236-5 km. shore of Burrard inlet 



Hastings — good exposures of the 



Eocene beds may be seen. 

 156 m. Vancouver — These deposits have been 



251 km. proved by borings to rest directly on the rocks 

 of the Coast Range batholith, and to have a 

 thickness under the City of Vancouver of 

 several hundred feet. They consist of sand- 

 stone, conglomerate and clay. They have the 

 structure of delta deposits and were probably 

 deposited in the delta of the ancient Fraser 

 river. They are well exposed in the sea-cliffs 

 at Stanley Park, where also they are intruded 

 by dykes of porphyrite. 



