Mensies' Journal. 



Off Coast of California. 



Next morning the weather cleard up so far that we had 

 a view of the land pretty early when we stood in for it & 

 at noon our Latitude by a Meridian Altitude was 40° 32' 

 North, when the bluff bore S 64 E nine leagues & Cape 

 Mendocino was to the Eastward of us 6 leagues so that 

 we congratulated ourselves on having kept our ground so 

 well during the late boisterous weather. We stood in till 

 we were within 6 or 7 Miles of the shore & preserving nearly 

 that distance, we coasted along it in the afternoon with a 

 favorable breeze for about 14 leagues without observing the 

 appearance of any distinguishable Port or Inlet, though in 

 the evening we could not be far from the situation of Port 

 Trinidad by the Spaniards. We observd a good deal of pale 

 or muddy water along shore, & at five we hauld our wind 

 which was moderate to the South West for the night being 

 then within 6 or 7 miles of a low rocky point guarded by 

 a number of small detachd rocks which also lind the shore 

 someway to the Southward of it. 



/ About 6 or 7 leagues to the Northward of Cape 

 Mendocino the Coast appears to incline in a little & form 

 a large shallow sandy bay backd by a considerable tract of 

 low land coverd with wood & rising with a very gradual 

 ascent to form dusky mountains a considerable way inland. 



On the morning of the 23*^ we again stood in for the 

 shore a few miles to the Northward of where we quitted 

 it on the preceeding evening, As we approachd the Shore 

 we came into exceeding pale & muddy water forming a 

 defined line with the other as if it rushd out of some con- 

 siderable river or Inlet, at first we were a little alarmd 

 thinking it might be shallow water & tryd Soundings but 

 had no ground with 50 fathoms of line, & it appeard of the 

 same colour all along shore to the Northward & Southward 

 of us. 



We coasted on to the Northward along a rocky indented 

 shore well lined with peaked insulated rocks ; in some places 

 the shore formd steep banks of reddish earth rising into 

 hills of a moderate height diversified with woods & pas- 

 turage. In the forenoon we passed on the inside of a small 

 naked rock about 6 or 7 miles from the shore in the Latitude 

 of 41° 20 N. At noon our Latitude was 41° 36' N. the 

 northern extreme of the Land formd a low flat point coverd 

 with Trees, bore N 11° E three leagues off & obtaind the 



1702. 

 April 22nd. 



Discovered by 



Heceta and 



Quadra, 



.Tu. Tth, 1775. 



Wrongly placed 



to N. of C. 



Mendocino In 



Harrington's 



map of their 



voyage. 



April 23rd. 



St. George's 

 Reef and Point 

 St. George, 

 near Crescent 

 Citv, Humboldt 

 Co., Cal. 

 Dragon channel 

 replaces 

 Dragon Bocks. 



