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Charlotte City to the Indian Reservation the coast is
rocky and impassable, so the Government has recently
cut an inland trail for the use of the settlers.

From Skidegate to Rose Spit the shore-line is in
parts covered with boulders, alternating with loose
shingle and sandy stretches.

Rose Spit is swept by currents both from Japan and
the Californian coast; it is therefore a noted spot for the
reception of flotsam and jetsam from far and wide.
Pumice which may have come from Mount St. Elias,
bamboos which may have drifted from Japan, logs from
the mainland, and even empty gun cases from
Esquimault.

When the steamer Valencia was wrecked near the
West coast of Vancouver Island relics of the disaster
were washed up here, among them a bottle containing
the tragic message: ‘“‘ We are going down off the
coast.—E. F. Hazarp.”’

At the South end of Moresby Island a few settlers are
engaged in sheep and cattle farming, and Liptons have
a cannery in Aliford Bay. The rest of the island is
filled by a jagged mountain chain. Deposits of copper
have been located and are being worked; the most
prosperous mine is that at Ikeda Bay.

At Pacofi Inlet a cold storage plant has been
established and a factory for extracting iodine from
kelp. Kumshewa Inlet is the centre of a logging
industry. On Louise, Lyell, Burnaby and Prevost
Islands many mineral claims have been located and
some are now Crown-granted. The Japanese in some
of the bays have depots where they cure dog salmon for
their own market.

There are not many rivers, and mostly small.
Yakoun River is the largest, but it is only twenty-five
miles in length. If the log-jams were removed boats