Annual Report (new Series).: Volume I-XVI...1885-1904, Volume 3, Part 1 |
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Common terms and phrases
abundant altered appears basalt beds belt Bright and clear British Columbia Cañon Cariboo Cassiar character Chilkoot chlorite Cloudy Coast Ranges Coutchiching Dease Lake Dease River deposits distance east epidote error and eccentricity exploration feet felsitic felspar Finlayson Lake Fort Selkirk fossils Frances Lake Frances River Frodsham geological glacier gneiss gold grains granite gravels grey hornblende hornblende schists Hudson Bay Index error Indians Island Keewatin latitude Laurentian gneiss ledge Lewes River Liard River limestone lower miles and a-half miners mining mountains mouth northern observed occur Ogilvie Ottawa Overcast Pelly Banks Pelly River places plagioclase portage portion probably pyrites quartz Quesnel Rainy Lake region rocks rocky route schistose schists seen Selkirk shore side slopes snow specimens Stikine River stream strike survey Tagish Lake Tahl-tan Telegraph Creek terraces Tes-lin-too trail tributary Upper Liard Upper Pelly valley veins vicinity volcanic width wind
Popular passages
Page 40 - Laurentian bowlders are scattered westward over the nearly horizontal limestones of the district. Taken in conjunction with the facts for the more southern portion of the continent, already pretty well known, the observations here outlined would appear to indicate a general movement of ice outward, in all directions, from the great Laurentian axis or plateau which extends from Labrador round the southern extremity of Hudson Bay to the Arctic...
Page 20 - The valley of the Lower Yukon is somewhat foggy in the latter part of summer ; but as we ascend the river the climate improves, and the short season at Fort Yukon is dry, but pleasant, only varied by an occasional shower.
Page 44 - which extends for many miles and is quite impassable either for steamers or boats, though traversed by miners in winter on the ice. The head-waters of the Stikine are unknown, but lie for the most part to the south of the 58th parallel of north latitude, in a country said to be very mountainous, interlocking there with northern branches of the Nass and western feeders of the Black or Turnagain River, a tributary of the Laird.
Page 10 - ... uniformly, to the north-westward : the mountains at the same time becoming more isolated and being separated by broader tracts of low land. The general base-level, or height of the main valleys, within the Coast Ranges, thus declines from about 2500 feet, to nearly 1500 feet at the confluence of the Lowes and Pelly rivers, and the average baselevel of the entire region may be stated as being a little over 2000 feet.
Page 30 - East and north-east of the Coast Ranges, the interior region traversed is, for the most part, floored by Palaeozoic rocks of very varied appearance, and probably referable to several of the main sub-divisions of the geological scale. In so far as the information obtained in the region here in question enables conclusions on the subject to be formed, the lowest part of the rocks, (1) consists of greenish and...
Page 30 - It is somewhat less in the latitude of the Chilkoot Pass, but may be assumed to occupy a border of the mainland about fifty miles in width along the whole of this part of the coast. Broadly viewed, however, the coast archipelago in reality represents a partly submerged margin of the Coast Ranges, and granitic rocks are largely represented in it also. The examination of these two northern crosssections of the Coast Ranges, serves, with observations previously made, to demonstrate the practical identity...
Page 139 - Thompson, and Campbell, we owe the discovery of our great north-west country. Their journeys were not marked by incidents of conflict or bloodshed, but were accomplished on the contrary with the friendly assistance and co-operation of the natives. Less resolute men would scarcely have entertained the idea of utilizing, as an avenue of trade, a river so perilous of navigation as the Liard had proved to be when explored. So long, however, as this appeared to be the most practicable route to the country...
Page 37 - Range, though analogy with the coast to the south favours the belief that it may have done so. The front of the glacier must have passed the outer border of the Archipelago, as at Sitka, well-marked glaciation is found pointing toward the open Pacific
Page 134 - In 1848 Campbell established Fort Selkirk at the confluence of the Pelly and Lewes Rivers ; it was plundered and destroyed in 1852 by the Coast Indians, and only the ruins now exist of what was at one time the most important post of the Hudson's Bay Company to the west of the Rocky Mountains in the far north. In...
Page 137 - Indians staid by it nearly all summer, of their own accord. It so happened, however, that they absented themselves for a couple of days and at that unlucky moment the Coast Indians arrived. The post was unguarded by a stockade and yielding to sheer force of numbers the occupants were expelled and the place was pillaged, on the 21st August.