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Excerpt from Excursions: In Northern British Columbia and Yukon Territory and Along the North Pacific Coast The Coast range is a deeply dissected granitic ridge usually from 60 to 80 miles (96 to 128 km.) in Width. It rises directly from the sea with few intervening flats or plateaus to height of to feet to gradually increasing towards the axis of the range to or feet to m.) The mountains and mountain ridges are massively built elevations with steep, often craggy, slopes terminating in rounded, dome shaped, and pyramidal summits. The heights as a rule are very uniform, although a few peaks rise to a consider able elevation above the general level. Deep, ice-worn, steep-sided valleys, often terminating in living glaciers, penetrate the range in all directions, and form one of its most characteristic features. The lower slopes of the mountains, where not too precipitous, are covered everywhere up to a height of feet m.) with a dense coniferous forest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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