BURRARD INLET. 1 7 I 



The town, as we have said, is situated on the edge of 

 Burrard Inlet, a natural arm of the sea, some 17 miles 

 long, which forms a perfectly land-locked tidal basin, 

 with still deep water almost everywhere coming close 

 up to the shores. Hills rise abruptly from the water's 

 edge on every side, covered with magnificent forests 

 of Douglas fir, * Hemlock Spruce, f and Cedar, 

 which descend to the very edge of the sea in every 

 part of the inlet. Strong tidal currents exist almost 

 everywhere in these seas, and near the mouth of this 

 inlet, at a place called " the narrows " at certain stages 

 of the tide the water runs like a mill race, at perhaps 

 6 or 7 miles an hour. This description may be said 

 to hold good for nearly all the inlets on the British 

 Columbian coasts, which are very numerous, and nearly 

 all of which we have visited: the waters of which are 

 sometimes so deep that it is frequently difficult for a 

 ship to anchor at all; they are also beautifully clear, 

 and numerous fish may frequently be seen swimming 

 beneath their surface and disporting themselves in the 

 tide rips. Salmon and sea trout swarm in all these 

 waters, forming a very paradise for anglers, as the 

 reader will see in the more particular accounts of this 

 region given in our section on "Fishing" for this is 

 a country we are well acquainted with. The scenery 

 in many of these inlets too, is magnificent, reminding 

 one greatly of Norway, which has much the same kind 

 of coast and scenery, minus however, the superb, and 

 never-to-be-sufficiently-admired forests, of whose regal 

 grandeur and magnificence we purpose now to give a 

 short account. The Norwegian forests are as nothing 

 in comparison. 



* Abies Douglasii. j Abies Canadensis. Thuja Gigantea. 



