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feet nine inches. The night-tides, at the fame periods, rife two feet higher. 
Pieces of drift wood, which the navigators had placed during day out of the reach 
(as they thought) of the tides, were in the night floated higher up, fo as to 
demonftrate the great increafe of thesno@turnal flux *. 
I have'defcribed, to the beft of my power, the quadrupeds and birds of the Ame- 
rican part of this voyage. In p. 12 I have given my fufpicions of certain animals 
of the Sheep kind being natives of this neighborhood and California; but am not 
fufficiently warranted to pronounce them to be the fame with the Argali or wild 
Sheep. Woollen garments are very common among the people of this Sound, and 
are manufactured by the women. The materials of many of them feem taken 
from the Fox and the Lynx; others, I prefume, from the exquifite down of the 
Mutfk Ox, N° 2. The only peculiar animal of thefe parts is the Sea Otter, N° 36: 
it extends fouthward along the coaft, as far as lat. 49, and as high as 60+. The 
other quadrupeds obferved by the navigators are common to the eaftern fide of 
North America. 
I may mention, that fmall Perroquets, and Parrots with red bills, feet, and 
breafts, were feen by M. Maurelle about Port Trinidada, in lat. 41. 7 ; and great 
flocks of Pigeons in the fame neighborhood {. This was in Fune: poflibly they 
were on thcir migration when our navigators reached the coafts, which was on 
March 29th. As to the Parrots, it is poffible that thofe birds may not extend fo 
far north as Nootka; for on the eaftern fide of the continent they do not inhabit 
higher, even in fummer, than the province of Virginia, in lat. 39; or, in the mid- 
land parts, than lat. 41. 15, where they haunt in multitudes the fouthern fides 
of the lakes Erze and Michigam, and the banks of the rivers J/linois and Ohio. 
Another delicate fpecies of bird was feen here in plenty, a kind of Honey-fucker or 
Humming-bird, anew f{pecies ; which I have defcribed, N° 177, under the fitle of 
the Ruffed. Among the water-fowl were feen the Great Black Petrel, p. 536. A. or 
the Quebrantahueffas, or Bone-breaker of the Spaniards, which feems to be found from 
the Kuril ifles to Terra del Fuego; the Northern Diver, N° 439; a great flock of 
Black Ducks with white heads; a large fpecies of White Ducks with red bills ; 
and Swans flying northward to their breeding-places : common Corvorants were 
alfo very frequent. 
The inhabitants of this Sound alter in their appearance from thofe who live 
more fouthern, They are in general below the middle ftature ; plump, but not 
mufcular ; their vifage round, full, and with prominent cheeks ; above which the 
face is comprefled from temple to temple: the noftrils wide: nofe flat, with a 
rounded point ; through the /eptwm narium of many is introduced a ring of iron, 
* Voyage, il. 339 + In p. 89, for lat. 44, read 49 $ See Barrington’s 
Mifcell. 489) 502. 
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