280 GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. 
Don Manuel Quimper was the first who discovered and entered this bay, (1790,) and who 
called it Puerto de Quadra. It was the ne plus ultra of Quimper's progress in De Fuca strait.* 
Don Francisco Elisa visited the port again in 1791, and continued the name of Puerto de 
Quadra, given to it in honor of the Spanish explorer Don Juan de la Bodega y Quadra. The 
Spanish officers of the Sutil and Mexicana assign to it as the original Indian name, СШауагпаё. + 
Vancouver, who in search of a convenient port arrived here in April, 1792, and was 
unacquainted with the explorations of his Spanish predecessors, believed himself to be the 
discoverer of this beautiful harbor. He made it fora period the station of his ships, and 
called it after one of them Port Discovery; and as he made his discoveries known throughout 
the world, this name has remained to it ever since. 
The little island before the port had been called by the Spanish discoverers Isla de Carrassco, 
(Carrassco’s island.) There was among Quimper’s men El Piloten Don Juan Carrassco, (the 
pilot’s mate Don Juan Carrassco.t) Perhaps the island was called after him. 
The island is a small detached piece of land, which, like the other islands near the coast of 
Washington Territory, resembles a table-land; its summit presents nearly a horizontal surface, 
an extensive lawn with luxuriant grass, and falls off to the water in perpendicular cliffs. From 
its good protecting qualities with respect to Port Discovery, it was called by Vancouver 
Protection island, (April, 1792.) The Spanish officers of the Sutil and Mexicana visited it 
soon after Vancouver, (June, 1792.) | 
They вау that the original Indian name of the island was Chachanucah.$ 
From Port Discovery the coast runs again a few miles to the east, and at Point Wilson falls 
off to the south, and forms another basin similar to those of Ports Washington and Discovery, 
and another peninsula similar to that which divides the last-mentioned two ports. But this 
harbor, called Port Townsend, opens towards Admiralty Inlet, of which it forms a part, and 
we will take it into consideration in connexion with that subject. 
ADMIRALTY INLET, FROM 47° 3' TO 489 12’ NORTH LATITUDE, 1229 30" WEST LONGITUDE. 
Admiralty Inlet is a most curious, irregular, and complicated compound of inlets, channels, 
and bays, which leads to a narrow entrance from the southeastern corner of De Fuca strait. 
The principal body of these waters, taking the whole as one mass, runs in a directly north 
and south line through more than a whole degree of latitude; but branches run out from it in 
all points of the compass, and fill a region 70 nautical miles in length from north to south and 
30 miles in breadth from east to west. 
It may be compared to a tree, of which the body is recognizable, which is called Admiralty 
Inlet proper, and the side branches have their particular names. : 
On the whole west coast, from San Diego to the north, nothing like this is met; but from De 
Fuca strait higher up the entire northwestern coast offers many other complicated channel 
systems very similar in their principal features to this. АП the water channels of which 
Admiralty Inlet is composed are comparatively narrow and long. They have all, more or less, 
© Manuscript journal of Quimper'g voyage, in the library of State Department, Washington. 
† Sutil and Mexicana, p. 42. 
{He is mentioned in the manuscript journal of Quimper’s voyage, United States State Department, and he is also men- 
tioned as one of the officers who afterwards signed a paper on the Spanish taking possession of the harbor of Nunez Gaona» 
§See their report, &c., page 42. 
