44 Mensies' Journal. 



Off Everett, Wash. 



1792. 

 May 30th. 



May 31st. 

 Elliot Point 



Everett Bay. 



Gedney Id. 



June 1st. 



Port Susan. 



US prevented our getting up with her till midnight, when we 

 came to an Anchor close to her, & were informd that she 

 reachd this place the evening of the day she parted with us, 

 and next morning Mr Broughton dispatchd Mr Whidbey 

 with two Boats to examine the openings that lay to the 

 Northward. 



The forenoon of the thirty-first I had a stroll on shore 

 on the point under which we lay & which at noon was ascer- 

 taind to be in Latitude 47° 58' north & Longitude 237° 37' 

 East which is about 34 leagues inland from the entrance 

 of the Straits & as the most easterly situation the vessels 

 anchord in — Mr Broughton namd the point from the vast 

 abundance of wild roses that grew upon it Rose Point — A 

 large Bay which went off to the Northward was the most 

 easterly situation which our Boats explord in this Country, 

 it terminates in / Latitude 48° North & 238° 2' East 

 Longitude. The land every where round us was still of 

 a very moderate height & coverd with a thick forest of 

 different kinds of Pine trees. In a marshy situation behind 

 the Beach I found some Aquatic plants I had not before 

 met with. 



In the afternoon we both weighd to follow the Boats 

 up the arm to the Northward but did not proceed far when 

 we came to again near an inland (sic) in mid-channel for 

 the night during which it raind very heavy. Some dogs had 

 been left on shore on this Island whose yellings were heard 

 several times in the night. 



In the morning of the first of June we weighd anchor 

 & finding the Arm a little to the Northward of us divide 

 into two branches, we stood up the Eastermost which soon 

 in the afternoon we found to terminate in a large Bay with 

 very shallow water 8z; muddy bottom, on which the Chatham 

 who was about two miles ahead of us got aground owing 

 to the inattention or unskilfulness of the leadsman, for on 

 sounding afterwards they found they had run over a flat 

 of near half a mile so very level that there was not more 

 than a foot depth of water difference, yet the leadsman 

 passed over this space without perceiving it, till they struck, 

 which was upon an ebb tide, & it afterwards fell about five 

 feet — they carried out a small Anchor three hawsers length 

 from the Vessel & after heaving tight waited the return of 

 the flood tide which about 11 floated them without having 



