66 LAMPLUGH: GLACIATION IN VANCOUVER ISLAND. 
power to spend a few hours now on these sections over which I was 
wandering at this time last year for day after day, 1 could bring' 
much more valuable results before you. In going- through my 
scant}^ notes many interesting problems have presented themselves 
to me, which might easily have been solved by a short review of the 
locality. But the purpose of this paper will be served if it recall 
attention to the fact that the Pacific coast of North A.merica, 
northward from the Columbia River, forms a most delightful, 
interesting, and nearly unbroken field for the study of almost every 
phase of glacial phenomena. 
Part II. — Notes on the Glacial Phenomena of the 
Neighbouring Region 
It may be w^ell to take this opportunity to publish a few 
scattered notes on the glaciation of various points in the Pacific 
Coast region, which may serve as indications to future observers. 
Port Townsencl, IF. T. — At Port Townsend, Washington Terri- 
tory, about 35 miles S.E. from Victoria, there is a fine cliff-section 
of glacial beds 60 to 80 feet in height, consisting of till overlying 
cross-bedded sands and gravels ; and I was told by a resident that 
a seam of peat could be seen in the cliff a little distance to the north 
of the town, but I had not time to go there. If the peat occur in 
the position indicated, it must be in glacial beds. 
The Eraser Valley. — Amongst the many excellent sections I 
observed on the mainland of British Columbia in walking down the 
Fraser Valley, was one on the then unopened line of the Canadian 
Pacific Railway where it skirts the mountain side after crossing the 
Harrison River. Here, in a cutting, morainic gravel overlaid 
bedded silts which contained a few crushed shells. These are 
undoubtedly marine. This spot must be a considerable height above 
sea-level, and the presence of marine remains here indicates an 
extensive submergence of the Fraser Valley in glacial times. 
Vancouver Island. — In walking across Vancouver Island on the 
forest trail from Nanaimo on the east coast to Alberni on an inlet of 
the west, I noticed a great accumulation of glacial debris, chiefly 
morainic, between the mountains and the sea on the east side of the 
island all the way to the mouth of the Qualicum River where my 
