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Mensies' Journal. 



Simoom Sound. 



1792. 



July 30th. 

 O'Brien Basin, 

 Shawl Bay. 



July 3l8t. 



Sutlej Channel. 



Hemlock of 

 Eastern Canada 

 as then named. 

 Afterwards 

 separated from 

 Pitius and 

 placed in genus 

 Tsuga, of which 

 our lowland 

 form Is T. 

 heterophylla. 



Phalacrocnrax 

 sp. One of the 

 Green 

 Cormorants. 



Aug. 1st. 



to the Westward & soon after ended in a small Basin which 

 was separated from the Western branch by a low isthmus of 

 only about a hundred yards wide where we landed & walkd 

 across & afterwards returnd to the Ship to dinner. / The 

 Country on each side was coverd with Pines, steep, Moun- 

 tainous & rocky. 



Early in the morning of the 31st two Boats were 

 equipped & sent off under the direction of Mr. Puget & Mr, 

 Whidbey up the Western branch on a surveying expedition, 

 while Cap* Vancouver & Mr. Broughton went off at the 

 same time in the Pinnace with intention to accompany them 

 a short way to see if it was practicable to follow them 

 further up with the Vessels, & if so, to settle on a place of 

 rendezvous. 



A party began to Water & another to brew Spruce Beer, 

 but after erecting the Brewing Utensils on shore, they 

 brought me word that there was none of that particular 

 Spruce from which they used to Brew to be found near the 

 landing place, on which I recommended another species 

 (Pinus Canadensis) which answerd equally well & made 

 very salubrious & palatable Beer. 



In the forenoon I employd myself in examining a small 

 collection of Plants I made on the preceeding day, but in the 

 afternoon I accompanied a shooting party who went in a 

 small Boat under a high perpendicular Cliff about two miles 

 off which we had passed on our right hand as we enterd the 

 Arm in the Vessels. Our Game was a particular kind of 

 Shag {Pelecanus Urile) that were breeding in the Horizontal 

 Crevices of the Rocks & at this time were very numerous as 

 the young ones were beginning to fly, to them our chief aim 

 was directed with some success & we found them next day 

 very palatable. 



In the forenoon of the ist of August I accompanied a 

 party of the Officers of both Vessels who were going to spend 

 the day towards the head of the Arm, in order to profit by 

 the opportunity in examining their route for rare plants, 

 particularly the deep gully from which the large Brook 

 emptied its rapid stream in to the Arm. Here we first 

 landed & on seeing the vast number of Salmon which kept 

 still gamboling about the mouth of it, the Boat was sent on 

 board the Discovery for the Seine & on the first haul we 

 mashd about four dozen of them, & the second haul was 



