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Vancouver, March 16, Wednesday
The day starts in dark and raining.
I leave on the Brossena Hotel bus and the C.P. R.R. train starts promptly at 8:30 A.M. We go fourteen miles up to Burnard Inlet which is situated the city of Vancouver, and 12 miles more on the delta of the Fraser. Burnard River we come upon the river itself. This delta hereabouts is usually not higher than 50 feet and con-siderable if it is settled and farmed. All this mountain 42 feet.
The Coast Range foothills and plateau is much dislocated and I must refer to early Cenozoic time. The small craters on all sides are U shaped due known, to the Pleistocene glaciation.
In the first 80 miles are rise of 100 feet.
Down comes down to about 1000 feet above sea.
The little town of Gyassy in the Coast Ranges is on the flatly Fraser River and has a romantic surrounding of sharply ascending out, Paleozoic formations near by.
At High at mid is go miles E of Vancouver we are off the delta and in marshes of the Fraser River. We are about 210 feet above the sea. The valley soon dawns.