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46 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA.

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Fraser Lake. length, shallow at both ends, but apparently deep in its central portion.
Its elevation is about 2,225 feet. It discharges eastward, over low ground
forming a continuation of the trough in which it les, on a part of which
Fort Fraser is situated. The country about its west end is also low, and
in part swampy. Near Fort Fraser, is the Indian village of Naul-tey,
and at the other end that of Stella: each inhabited by a few families,
the remnants of a once more numerous tribe, who appear to live in
comparative comfort, and cultivate small garden patches, but are neither | :
industrious nor cleanly.

The lake is bordered to the north and south by rather bold and broken
hills, some of which, probably, rise from 600 to 800 feet above it, and
are of Tertiary volcanic rocks. There are, however, in some places,
‘patches of flat terrace country of considerable size, suitable for agricul-
ture, where the bays ofa former larger lake have been filled with sediment.

Terraces. Benches are distinguishable on the higher slopes to a‘height estimated
at over 200 feet above the lake, or 2,450 feet above the sea. The hills
on the north side show a general tendency to form ranges, which run from
the lake in a north-westward direction, with steep bluffy fronts south-
westward, and longer slopes to the north-east.

The Douglas fir again appears in some abundance on the hills about

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Fraser Lake, though not observed in any part of the upper Nechacco
country.

Stellako River The Stellako River, uniting Francois and Fraser Lakes, is wide and
still at its mouth, on the south side of which the Indian village lies.

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+ On its north side it is joined by a stream called the En-da-ko, coming
1 from a direction a little north of west, and navigable for canoes, one
| : day’s journey, to a lake which is described as not being very large. The
| Stellako soon becomes more rapid when followed up, and for the greater
i part of its course may be described as a succession of rapids, difficult
1 for canoes, in consequence of their shallowness and the number of
boulders and stones with which they are encumbered. In one place a
fall of nearly five feet occurs, rendering a portage unavoidable, and in
several other rapids it is necessary at most stages of water to lighten
canoes before tracking them up.

The working time occupied in ascending by this river from Fraser to
Francois Lake was ten hours twenty-five minutes. It is very tortuous,
but in a straight line the distance is not more than six miles. The river

which from their number and arrangement show that it must have cut

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i down by degrees to its present level. Granite cliffs, forty to fifty feet
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