Field Notebook: Maine, New Hampshire 1925
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in into a V shaped one and then takes on a gorge character betw cont vertical walls up to about 200 fut. This continues to about China Bar = 120 miles E. of Yarrow. crown. In these canons the granodite seems again and vertically jointed in places and all showing with dills. (By the time one gets to North Bend, the valley of the Fraser) again widens out, suggesting that here has her stream capture here. The cuts also appears to be considerably lower, but later down history comes back of them. There is no rain in the heart of the Coast Range but the days are dark and it may be snowing at higher levels. At Keen's there is a great development of coal rocks, The C.P.R. is on the northern side of the river while the Great Northern R. is on the south bank and ex- presses a dry series of the sedimentary formations. If there are any faults in these rocks, here offers chances to reveal them historical geology. The Fraser Valley opens from once all the way to Lytton and here the C.P.R. leaves it and goes up to Thompson River. Many river terraces are