KAYE’S ISLAND. PRINCE WILLIAM’S SOUND. 
Sp. PI. ii. 1267; Milfoil or Yarrow, Fi. Scot. i. 490. K. Virg.: Empetrum nigrum, 
Sp. Pl. ii. 1450; Black-berried Heath, Crow-berries, F/. Scot. ii. 612. K. Virg.: 
Menifpermum Canadenfe ? Sp. Pl. ii. 1468. K. Virg.—I retain the mark of Britis 
vegetables, to fhew the vaft dilatation of plants; and that of Virg. to fhew thofe 
which fpread to the eaftern fide of America. 
- To thefe may be added a few trees and plants obferved by our navigators ; fuch 
as the Pinus Strobus, Sp. Pl. ii. 1490, the white or Weymouth Pine, which grows 
to an enormous fize; Pinus Canaden/fis, Sp. Pl. ii. 1421, the Canada Pine; three 
or four other Pines, which we cannot determine ; the Cupreffus Difticha ? Sp. Pl. ii. 
1422, the deciduous Cyprefs ; Cupre/fus Thycides, Sp. Pl. ii. 1422, or white Cedar; 
fome Birch, Alders, and Willows; wild Rofe-bufhes ; and feveral plants, the 
fpecies of which are unknown to us. Probably that ufeful Lily, the Lilium 
Kamtfchatchenfe, or Saranne, extends to the continent, for it is found in abun- 
dance in the adjacent ifland Oonalafchka, where it ferves as a food, as it does in 
Kamtfchatka *. 
In this neighborhood, in lat. 59. 49, about Kaye’s ifland +, off Cape Sucéling, 
Captain Cook obferved variety of birds; among them fome Albatrofles, the 
{nowy Gulls, and the common Corvorant: and in the poor woods which encircled 
the ifland like a girdle, were feen a Crow, the white-headed Eagle, and another 
{pecies equally large, of a blacker color, with a white breaft, which proves to be 
the kind defcribed by Mr. Latham, i. p. 33. N° 72, under the name of the white- 
bellied Eagle t. 
After doubling a cape, called by our great navigator, Hinchinbroke §, he anchored 
in a vaft found, named by him Prince William’s, in lat. 6x. 30, fecured by a long 
ifland, called Mountague’s, ftretching obliquely acrofs from north-eaft to fouth- 
weft, The land round this harbour rofe to a vaft height, and was deeply covered 
with fnow ||. Vegetation in thefe parts feemed to leflen. The principal trees 
were the Canadian and Spruce Firs, and fome of them moderately large. 
Befides the quadrupeds found at Nootka, there is a variety of Bear of a white 
color; I will not call it the Polar, as that animal inhabits only the fevereft cli- 
mates, where it can find dens of fnow and ifles of ice. An animal of the er- 
mine kind, varied with brown, but the tail fcarcely tipt with black. Wolve- 
renes were here, of a very brilliant color; and the earlefs Marmot, N° 47, was 
very common. None of thefe were feen living, but their fkins were brought 
® Voyage, ii. 501. + Same, tab. 85. t Same p. 3526 § Same, tab, 865 
} See the pifturefque view of Suecg Corner Cove, tab, 45. 
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