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00858 Victoria B.C. Thursday morning July 10 Dear Louie Strentzel, Here, yet once more in my crooked way lies the glassy
glaciated rock bound lake-like harbor of Victoria. We have just made fast to the dock. The town is founded on the best glacier-tested
glacier-elected rocks is the capital of B.C. it has I believe about 6,000 inhabitants is of more telling glacial interest
than any other town I have seen on the continent of N.A. How green fresh the ferns trees are on the patches of Moraine-soil
deleted: beneath between the upswelling rock- -bosses Your are very kind in caring so faithfully for my few bits of things.
I sent a few specimens of burs leaves