266 GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. 
DESTRUCTION ISLAND, 47° 42’ NORTH LATITUDE, 124° 27, WEST LONGITUDE. 
Destruction island is the largest detached piece of land on the whole western coast between 
Point Conception and Cape Flattery, though it is only six miles in circumference. It lies about 
thirty nautical miles to the northwest of Point Grenville, the coast presenting no remarkable 
points between Point Grenville and Destruction island. It is distant from the main land only 
about two miles. The greatest length of the island is from north to south. 
The island has a rocky, abrupt, somewhat elevated coast, but is nearly flat on the top, the 
surface presenting somewhat the form of a table-land. It presents a barren aspect, and pro- 
duces only one or two dwarf trees at each end. 
The part of the coast in the vicinity of this island may have been seen by Drake in 1518, 
who is said to have advanced as high as 48? north latitude; but we have no particulars concern- 
ing this part of his voyage. 
It was first recognized by the Spanish expedition, under Heceta, 1775. Несейа, coming 
from the south, approached this region in the beginning of July with the intention of searching 
for the Strait of Juan de Fuca. 
He met here with the misfortune of losing seven of his men, who were sent on shore for water 
and were attacked and killed by the Indians, and his boat taken. From this event a little 
bay or inlet on shore was called Ensefiada de los Martires, (the Inlet of the Martyrs.*) Рег- 
haps this name was chosen in allusion to the religious appellation of the day, the thirteenth 
of July, on which this happened, and which was the day of San Anacleto and of the five 
hundred martyrs. 
Nararate puts the Enseiada іп 47° 24', The chart of Maurelle has, therefore, a Punta de 
los Martires, and indicates pretty clearly with it our Point Grenville, but subsequent Spanish 
charts { put the Ensefiada and Rio de los Martires to the north of Destruction island. This 
island was named on that occasion Isla de Dolores, (the Island of Sorrow,) perhaps because 
the officers and crew of both ships communicated there about the painful event, and had there 
that sorrowful consultation about the question whether they should revenge the murder of 
their companions or not. 
To the open bay on the coast to the north of Destruction island Meares gave the name 
Queenhithe. Queenhithe is said to be a village on the Thames, near London. I believe, 
however, the predecessor of Meares, Captain Berkely, had already given this name to this 
locality. The name has, however, disappeared from the charts. | 
A view of Destruction island and the neighboring coast is contained in the Coast Survey 
Report of 1855. 
FLATTERY ROCKS, 48° 11’ NORTH LATITUDE, 1249 43’ WEST LONGITUDE. 
The coast from Destruction island northward presents a broad, open bay which affords no 
protection, and which, as already observed, was called by Berkely and Meares Queenhithe. 
The shores of the bay, as well as the coast further north, are lined with rocks. 
On the Spanish charts we find in this region an Ensefiada de Mojos, a little south of the 
48° north latitude. This inlet and name are not only indicated on the charts of the Sutil and 
Mexicana, but also on other Spanish charts of about the year eighteen hundred. The English 
9 See Nararate, Introduction, XCIV. 
{ See Calendario Manuel de Mexico por 1791, р. 18. 
1 For instance, those of Sutil and Mexicana. 
