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for Admiral Sir John Jervis ; Scotch Fir Pointy because of 

 the first firs they had seen, reminding them, in the midst of a 

 flora very different to that of their Island home, of Scotland ; 

 Harwood and Savary Islands for " old friends ;" Johnstone 

 Straits and Broughton Straits and Island and Mudge Cape 

 and Hanson Island and Baker Passage to signalize his con- 

 fidence in his officers, while the " middies" were not forgotten, 

 as Hardwick Island and Points Duff and Gordon and other 

 place-names prove. Nelson Island he named after " Captain 

 Nelson of the Navy " — a seaman whose fame was within a 

 few years to start ringing down the centuries. Thurlow 

 Island and Chancellor Passage commemorate the great 

 Chancellor of 1783, while Loughborough Inlei recalls Thur- 

 low's alternating Chancellor, Alexander Wedderburn, Lord 

 Loughborough. 



Vancouver sighted the coast on the i8th April and 

 rounded the northern point of Vancouver Island on the 27th 

 August, and between these dates had given to more than a 

 hundred places names which most of them retain to this day, 

 a few having been changed after the United States, by the 

 Oregon Treaty, secured a portion of the coast explored by 

 Vancouver. 



On his second voyage Vancouver sighted the coast of 

 Vancouver Island on the iSth May, 1793, and after a few 

 days set out to continue the survey of the mainland coast and 

 returned to Nootka on Sept. 2nd, a period of three and a half 

 months, during which he gave about 200 place-names and 

 confirmed a dozen or more that had been given by previous 

 explorers. He appears to have proceeded upon much the same 

 plan as in his previous examination of the grandest archipel- 

 ago the world possesses, that between the mainland of British 

 Columbia and Oregon and the Island of Vancouver. Cape 

 Caution, he so named as a warning to all future navigators 

 to take special care when in its vicinity. Gardner Canal he 

 named after Vice Admiral Gardner, who was in command of 

 the station at Jamaica when Vancouver was there and who 

 reported favorably of him, mentioning him to Lord Chatham 

 and the Admiralty. Behm Canal after Major Behm "in 

 recollection of the weighty obligations conferred by him on 

 the officers and men of the Resolution and Discovery while 

 while at Kamtchatka in 1779" ; New Eddystone, because the 

 ,rock looked like that on which the Eddystone light is perched ; 

 Escape Point and Traitor Cove, because the treacherous 



