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of prosperous settlement are on the line of this road,
and several charming resorts that are much frequent
ed by tourists and sportsmen.
There are a number of features of special scenio
beauty in the city of Victoria and its environs. Dea
con Hill park occupies an elevation in the eastern
part of town and is one of the most interesting of its
attractions. The park itself is a rare combination of
the beauties of nature and comforts of art, and the
outlook from it is most grand. The North arm is a
favorite locality for boating and fishing. Qoldstream
make the trip. The distanco from tho city is some
thirteen miles. Eiquimalt is also ouo of the promt
ncnt resorts of that vicinity, tho government works
and naval equipments adding to tho attractions which
the scenery of tho harbor affords. Large, numbers of
people visit tho war vessels that lie at anchor iu the
bay. Tho Eiquimalt harbor is probably tho best one
on tho shores of Vancouver islam!, it being a per
fectly land locked refuge, aud naturally accessible for
vessels of tho deepit draught.
To persons not familiar with tho surroundiugs of
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is one of the most noted resorts near tho city. This
is a mountain stream of considerable sif, and it
banks are pictaresqoe in tho extreme, A hotel has
been erected at the most central point and various
other accommodations provided for pleasure seekers.
About a mile from Goldstrcam is a recently disoov-.
ered waterfall that is an object of much intofit It
is a branch of tho Goldstrcam, in what is termed Ni
agara canyon, and tho water pours over a rocky prec
ipice more than two hundred feet high. Niagara
Canyon falls is tho name given this cataract It li
proposed to clear a suitable trail to this pla so that
it may be conveniently viiiUvl by all who che to
Victoria, a question m to what thero is to support its
growth naturally arise. In tho first plaeo there U
no popular appreciation of tho valuo and extent of
tb natural resources of Vancouver U1:jL It Is near
ly three hundred miles In length northwest and south
east, ami has an area of aljut twe thousand miles.
Tbo ooMt U indented with a vmI nuroUr of small,
but navigable, inlets; but a larg rtlon of tho Inte
rior is mountainous, and a considerable area U still
oaexplored, or, at best, ouly a general idea of tho sur.
fftfrt characteristics of tho country Is obtained. la
torn parts of tho Island mountains riso to a height of
cine thousand feet al;v tho . In tho valleys of