level benches and swamp lands extend 2 miles south
to foot-hills of a mountain range enclosing the yal-
ley, which apparently terminates at this point.
The bench is broken by a sandy ridge, thickly tim-
bered, extending from Hungry to Slim Creek. The
bench is largely composed of alder and cranberry
_ Swamps ; the former flooded by many beaver-dams;
_the latter topped with moss overlying decayed
vegetation. Drainage is not difficult and clearing
not heavy.

Longworth Station connects by road with Long-
worth Post-office, situated on the river, where a
sawmill and store are also located. Lindup, 4
miles eastward, is a flag-station. Between Long-
worth and Penny, another lumbering centre, where
two sawmills, general store, and post-office, situated
1% miles west of the station, are located, the rail-
way passes through a stretch of timber limits.
From Lot 3244, about a mile below Longworth, to

-Lot 3252, opposite Lindup, the land rises in
benches 20 to 150 feet above the river, alternate
patches of timber and beaver meadow and swamp.
«At the north of the railway is a timbered ridge
rising to the mountain divide between the Fraser
and Torpy, Mount Ida and Red Mountain being
the highest peaks. This range gradually lowers to
river benches at the mouth of the Torpy. At
Dome Creek, 2 miles east of Bend Station, near
where the railway crosses a bridge to the south
side of the river, at the junction of Dome Creek,
up which a road extends a short distance, is
another lumbering and farming centre, with a
Farmers’ Institute. Kidd, 2 miles east of Dome
Creek, is a flag-station. Soon after leaving Bend
Mount Sir Rider Haggard is seen to the south-
east, shaped like a lion couchant. A large glacier
reposes at the base.

Near Torpy RIvEr.

Torpy River heads in the mountain divide
between it and McGregor River and flows south-
east to 5 miles from the mouth, where it turns due
south to the Fraser. From the junction of the
Bast Fork to the head a belt 3 miles wide on either
side is in a game reserve. A number of timber
limits are located on the lower part and on the
Hast Fork.

Fraser Valley, immediately above Torpy River,
is 8 to 10 miles wide, at altitude of 2,100 feet.
Bottom land has generally clay subsoil, and in few
instances gravel, with top soil varying from black
muck or peat in old beayer-sloughs to clay loam,
and where cleared makes good agricultural land.