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of the islands beginning at Tal-thel-leh ; and a 

 line drawn from thence due south cuts a huge 

 bluff, forming the western angle of Gah-houn- 

 tchella, or Rabbit Point. This indented isth- 

 mus juts out in aW.N.W. direction from the 

 eastern main, and, overlapping the immense 

 island of Peth-the-nueh, or Owl Island, so as 

 to make the land seem continuous, gives the ap- 

 pearance of a deep bay, of which, together with 

 the island, it seems to be the boundary. In 

 truth, however, the effect so produced is an 

 optical illusion, occasioned by the distance and 

 refraction of the objects ; for although the blue 

 outline appears perfectly unbroken, yet Gah- 

 houn-tchella was subsequently discovered to be 

 the northern opening to a narrow strait leading 

 into a magnificent inner bay, at the south 

 part of which we afterwards established a 

 fishery. Still farther south than the fishery 

 is another narrow passage, hemmed in on the 

 west by the mural precipices of Peth-the- 

 nueh, and on the east by lofty granitic moun- 

 tains. This forms the outlet to a part of the 

 lake which is bounded by the horizon, the 

 whole space being one sheet of water as far 

 as Point Keith. The southern shore I have 

 ventured to lay down, according to the dotted 

 lines in the chart, after a patient investigation 

 of various Indian accounts, all of which make 



