Menaies' Journal. 



Queen Charlotte Sound. 97 



to it that she touchd another sunken rock & hung upon it for 

 about two minutes but got off again without receiving any 

 apparent injury. The wind being scanty & rather against us 

 in the afternoon, we stood in towards the Northern shore of 

 the Sound & anchord within half a Mile of it in 55 fathoms 

 where the Woods appeard to be small scrubby Pines that 

 bore evident marks of the Oceanic blasts to which they were 

 much exposd, for we were now in sight of the Sea & nearly 

 out of this great intricate Sound, having a spacious opening 

 & an unbounded Horizon in a West North West direction. 



The morning of the 9th was foggy till the day was well 

 advanced, when we both weighd Anchors & proceeded cau- 

 tiously to the Westward with a light fair breeze out to Sea, 

 passing through a narrow Channel of about a Mile wide 

 between some Islands coverd with Pines in the entrance of 

 the Sound. We were in this passage about noon when our 

 Latitude by an indifferent observation was 51° North, and 

 though there appeard a spacious Channel between these 

 Islands & the Northern Shore yet we did not attempt it, as 

 we observd some low picked rocks & breakers strewd in two 

 or three places at half-tide which shewd it to be foul ground 

 & by no / means a commendable passage to Navigate with- 

 out previous knowledge of its Soundings. 



Soon afternoon it became very thick & foggy with a 

 moderate breeze of wind from the Westward, against which 

 we continued making short tack to keep to Windward of 

 these Islands till in the evening it cleard up & we found 

 ourselves drifted over to the Southern Shore of the Sound 

 & anchord within half a mile of it, as the uncertainty of the 

 Currents & Winds renderd it rather dangerous to be under 

 way during the night. 



The morning of the loth was foggy as we had it pretty 

 regular for some days past, till about 8 when it cleared with 

 a moderate breeze from the Eastward, with which we 

 weighd & stood to the Northward on the Outside of the 

 Islands across the entrance of Queen Charlotte's Sound for 

 the entrance of Fitzhugh's Sound, having now traced the 

 Continental Shore through its various intricate windings & 

 circumvolutions to the point which divides these two Sounds 

 on the Outer Edge of the Coast & which lays in Latitude 

 51° 16' North & Longitude 232° 30' East, for at noon we 

 had an observation about four miles to the Northward of it 



1792. 



Aug. 8tb. 



Aug. Otb. 



Between Pine 

 and Storm 

 Islands. 



Near Shadwell 



Aug. 10th. 



Fitzhugh Sd. 

 (if Hacua, 

 1786. 



