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Mensics' Journal. 



Queen Charlotte Sound. 



1792. 



Aug. 4tU. 



Bast of Point 

 Boyles of 

 Vancouver. 



Aug. 5th. 



Queeu Charlotte 

 Sd. 



Aug. Gth. 



Near Deserters' 

 Islands. 



with their party soon after joind us, having pursued the 

 Continental shore through intricate winding Channels that 

 led them out into the Sound. — They met with a few 

 straggling parties of the Natives & particularly a Chief who 

 had his Arm blown / up with Gun powder on the other side 

 of the Sound, & which they dressd for him. — They also met 

 with some falls of Salt Water of fourteen or sixteen feet 

 high which surprized them not a little but as none of them 

 were above the reach of the Tide at high water, it is probable 

 that these falls were from Basins filled at that time which 

 continued emptying slowly until the next return of the Tide 

 as we have already observd in another place. 



Having but little wind in the evening & the Tide making 

 against us we were indued to drop Anchor in very deep 

 water a little to the westward of the entrance of the Channel 

 we came out of. 



The morning & forenoon of the 5th was Calm with very 

 thick fog till about noon when it cleard up so as to enable 

 us to get a Meridian Altitude of the Sun which made our 

 Latitude 50° 50' North & we were at the same time near the 

 North Shore of this great Sound & about 25 leagues nearly 

 due North of Nootka Sound. 



The great North West range of high Mountains was 

 not now far removd from us, their Summits were coverd 

 with Snow & their sides every where wooded with a con- 

 tinued forest of Pines down to the shore of the Sound which 

 appeard bleak & rocky. The Sound is here about five 

 leagues wide & every where interspersed with numerous 

 Islands. 



Soon after noon a moderate westerly breeze set in, & 

 being at the same time favord with the ebb Tide, we both 

 weighd, & continued plying to windward along the northern 

 shore of the Sound till the Evening when it fell nearly calm, 

 but as the Sound was wide, we kept under way all night, 

 with very litttle wind & hazy weather. 



The 6th continued Calm & hazy till a little past noon 

 when it cleard up with a light breeze from the Westward 

 against which we continued plying till about half past four 

 in the afternoon, when we were standing in towards the 

 North Shore of the Sound, going at the rate of about three 

 knots through the Water, the Discovery struck upon a small 

 bed of Rocks under Water & there stuck fast. On sounding 



