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ON ICE-GROOVED ROCK SURFACES NEAR VICTORIA, VANCOUVER 
ISLAND ; WITH NOTES ON THE GLACIAL PHENOMENA OF THE 
NEIGHBOURING REGION, AND ON THE MUIR GLACIER OF 
ALASKA. BY G. W. LAMPLUGH. 
Part I. — Glaciation near Victoria, V. I. 
Introduction. — During- an enforced and unexpected stay of 
nearly a month in the town of Victoria, Vancouver Island, last 
autumn (1884), I spent some time in examining- the glacial phenomena 
of the surrounding' district. I did not then know if any work had 
been done in the neighbourhood, but afterwards found that more 
than one account of the glaciation of south-eastern Vancouver had 
been published, the most important being- an excellent memoir in 
the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. XXXIV., p. 89 
(1878), by Dr. G. M. Dawson, of the Geological Survey of Canada. 
But as the features are so striking and so far beyond what we 
see near home, I think another account of them i.^ not only 
permissible but desirable, especially as the observations have been 
made from an independent standpoint. 
In the following communication I have arranged, wnth very 
slight alterations, the notes and sketches which I made of some of 
the most remarkable instances of rock sculpture which came under 
my notice. I have added a few ideas sug-gested at the time or since 
by the study of them, in which, however, I have confined myself to 
matters of detail, and have not entered into broader questions as to 
the character of the glaciation over the whole region, as this has 
been very ably done by Dr. G. M. Dawson, in the above cited 
memoir, to which I would refer those who desire more extended 
information. 
Geographical Features. — That I may be able to indicate the 
exact geographical position of the rock surfaces to which I am 
about to refer, I have prepared a ground-plan of the country and 
coast-line near Victoria, on which the places mentioned in the 
following notes are marked down (fig. 5). Within the area covered 
