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lie Name of the Sound,, and DireBions for failing into it. 

 Account of the adjacent Country. — Weather. — Climate. 

 — Trees. — Other vegetable ProduSlloju. — ^luadrupeds^ 

 whofe Skins were brought for Sale. — Sea Animals. — 

 Defcription of a Sea Otter. — Birds. — Water Fowl. — 

 Ttp.—Shell-fip, ^c.—Reptiles.—lnfeas. ^Stones, &'c. 

 — Perfons of the Inhabitants. — Their Colour. — Common 

 Drefs and Orname?tts. — Occafonal Drcffes^ and mon- 

 flrous Decorations ofwoode?t Mafks. — Their general Dif- 

 poftions. — Songs. — Mufical L-'flruments. — Their Eager- 

 7iefs to pojfefs Ircn and other Metals. 



1778. A~\N my arrival in this inlet, I had honoured it with the 

 V_^ name of King George's Sound ; but I afterward found, 

 that it is called Nootka by the natives. The entrance is fitu- 

 ated in the Eafl corner of Hope Bay, in the latitude of 49° 33' 

 North, and in the longitude of 233* 12' Eaft. The Call coall 

 of that bay, all the way from Breakers Point to the entrance 

 of the Sound, is covered by a chain of funkcn rock-^, that 

 feemed to extend fome dillance from the (hore ; and, near 

 the Sound, are fome illands and rocks above water. 



We enter this Sound between two rocky points, tl^at lie 

 Eall South Eaft, and Weft North Weft from each otiicr, dif- 

 tant between three and four miles. Within thefe points 

 the Sound widens confiderably, and extends in, to the North- 

 ward, 



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