The steamer stopped at the capital City British Columbia at 11.45 and we had a chance to ashore for an hour. This is Victoria and here I visited the Parliament Building another pleasing great stone large structure standing back on a park facing the sea crafts. Nearby is the C.P.R.R. lays Victoria Hotel. The walked along one of the main streets to see the stores. There are very much like our own. The Olympics are all of metamorphic rocks, and to the north of them are the upturned Cenozoic formations in fault relations to the east. To the south there are low hills, mainly a tableland of elevated horizontal sands. The reddish m'huces is so distinct from these Pleistocene strata must be of marine origin. Those lower hills go up 200 feet or more.