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railway from Mile 197 to about Mile 204. Good sections 

 of these beds occur in a railway cut at this point. 



The Skeena beds overlie those of the Hazelton forma- 

 tion, apparently comformably, although this has not 

 been definitely proved. They consist of felspathic sand- 

 stones, indurated clays, carbonaceous shales, conglom- 

 erates and occasional beds of coal. They are folded, but 

 not so severely as the Hazelton beds, and do not show 

 the same persistent fracturing and veining. 



Mile 206-8. — Looking up the valley of Two Mile 

 creek a good view is obtained of the imposing mass of 

 peaks streaked with snow fields which form the southern 

 end of the Rochers Deboules mountains. The highest peak 

 reaches an elevation of 8,100 feet (2,468 m.). 



Mile 210. — Moricetown. — A short box canyon 

 occurs on the Bulkley at this point. The canyon is sunk 

 through a sheet of andesite bent into an anticline. Half 

 a mile beyond Moricetown are sections showing green 

 andesites streaked in places with black areas. 



Mile 213-3. — Interbanded green and red andesitic 

 rocks of the Hazelton group are exposed here. The green 

 variety represents flow rocks. The red variety consists 

 largely of fine grained andesitic tuffs and in places is 

 cleaved into slate. 



Mile 214-2. — Sections of the ordinary dark tufaceous 

 sandstones and shales of the Hazelton group occur here. 

 Some of the beds are highly fossiliferous, especially along 

 the Bulkley river a mile east of the railway track, to which 

 point a collecting trip will be made if time permits. The 

 fossil beds so far have only been hastily examined. 



The railway at this point passes along a steep slope at 

 an elevation of 190 feet (57-9 m.) above the river, and 

 affords a good view of the rough, partially terraced valley 

 of the Bulkley, here from four to five miles (6-4 to 8 km.) 

 wide. The valley on the east is bordered by a long worn 

 ridge overlooked by the partially snow-clad peaks of the 

 Babine range. 



Mile 214-4. — The Hazelton beds here are intruded by a 

 small light coloured quartz porphyry stock. 



Mile 214-5. — Beyond Trout creek the river bends to 

 the east and the railway follows up Toboggan creek, a 

 small stream fed from a glacier in the Hudson Bay 

 mountains, the bordering range west of the valley. The 

 valley in this portion of its course is covered thickly with 



