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“Americans are broader than thofe of the eaftern fide of the continent; and fome 
have two circular apertures, in order to admit two men *. Every weapon which 
thefe people have for the chace of quadrupeds or fifh, is the fame with thofe ufed 
by the Greenlanders : there is not one wanting. 
From Prince William’s found the land trends north-weft, and terminates in two 
headlands, called Cape Elizabeth and Cape Bede; thefe, with Cape Banks on the 
oppofite fhore, form the entrance into the vait eftuary of Coox’s river; in the 
midft of which are the naked ifles, diftinguifhed by the name of the Barren. 
Within, to the weft, is a lofty two-headed mountain, called Cape Douglas ; which 
is part of a chain of a vaft height, in which was a vulcano, at the time this place 
was vifited, emitting white {moke: and in the bottom of a bay, oppofite to it, is 
an ifland, formed of a lofty mountain, on which was beftowed the name of Mount 
St. Auguftine+. The eftuary is here of a great breadth, owing to a bay running 
oppofite to Mount Augu/tine deeply to the eaft. 
The eftuary of Coox’s river is of great length and extent. ‘The river begins 
between Anchor Point and the oppofite fhore, where it is thirty miles wide: the 
depth very confiderable, and the ebb very rapid. Far within, the channel con- 
tracts to four leagues, through which rufhes a prodigious tide, agitated like 
breakers againft rocks. The rife of the tide in this confined part was twenty-one 
feet. It was examined feventy leagues from the entrance, as far as lat. 61. 30, 
long. 210, and its boundaries were found to be flat, f{wampy, and poorly wooded, 
till they reached the foot of the great mountains. Towards the north, it divides 
into two great branches, or perhaps diftin@ rivers. That to the eaft is diftin- 
guifhed by the name of Turn-again river. The firft is a league wide, and navi- 
gable, as far as was tried, for the largeft fhips, and continued very brackith ; 
there is therefore the greateft probability of its having a very long courfe, and be- 
ing, in after times, of confiderable ufe in inland navigation : that it is of fome even 
at prefent is very certain ; for here, as well as in Prince William’s found, the Indians 
were pofleffed of glafs beads and great knives of Englifh manufacture, which the 
Hludfon’s bay company annually fend in great quantities, and exchange for furs with 
the natives, who travel to our fettlements very far from the weft. The company 
alfo fend copper and brafs veffels; but neither copper or iron in bars. There 
does not feem to be any dire&t dealings with the Indians of this coaft: the traffic 
is carried on by intermediate tribes, who never think of bringing furs to a people 
fo amply fupplied as the Zzdians are who deal with our factories. Nations who 
ufe the moft pretious furs merely as a defence from the cold, make no diftintion 
of kinds: if they could get more beads or more knives for the fkins of Sea Otters 
* Voyage, ii. 371. See the chart, ii. tab. 44. 
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