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East of Skeena Crossing the railway follows a wide 

 roughly terraced slope, which intervenes between the 

 river and the bordering Rochers Deboules mountains. 

 The older rocks are mantled everywhere and in places 

 deeply buried beneath, a thick covering of glacial drift. 



Mile 175. — A small granitic stock more basic than 

 usual, intrusive into the Hazleton beds, crosses the valley. 



Mile 176. — Seely gulch a deep V-shaped gorge, sunk 

 through boulder clay, joins the Skeena from the south. 



Mile 177. — Hazelton. — The railway leaves the 

 Skeena at this point and turns to the right up the Bulkley 

 a tributary stream. Both rivers near their junction, 

 have cut deep, terraced, secondary valleys through the 

 drift, Looking northward from the railway level 320 

 feet (100 m.) above the river, the great mountain-bordered 

 valley of the Skeena is seen stretching far into the distance. 

 Hazelton, an old furtrading post of the Hudson's Bay 

 Company and at present the principal trading centre of 

 the district, is situated in the foreground at the confluence 

 of the two rivers. 



Mile 180-5. — New Hazelton is situated in a wide 

 flat separated from the river by a rocky ridge, and a road 

 leads from it to old Hazelton, across the Bulkley, which is 

 here enclosed in a rocky gorge. A good view of the Rochers 

 Deboules mountains on the southwest is obtained from 

 this point. 



