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C Douglas bight
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They are somewhat faulted and the ash beds are often stream-waved and sometimes contain pebbly layers.  The plants (No 92) are mostly reeds, grasses &c as if the deposit was a marsh flora.  To the south three glaciers are visible in the range, two come down south of Cape Douglas and one ends in a stream discharging into the bight.  The southernmost is the largest.  The peninsula west of the bight is composed of a very level layer of columnar andesite about 40 ft thick with a talus of broken material of the same, and indications of leaf beds below.  The top of this bed has been moderately glaciated (as also the eastern peninsula) and shows a few erratics.  The agency might have been an extension of the glacier whose stream now discharges into the bight as the grooving points toward it.  The rocks are a good deal de-