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and Admiralty Entrance. It was named so by Vancouver, in honor of Captain George Wilson, 
of the British navy.* 
Point Partridge is the most eastern headland of Whidby’s island. It forms a white sandy 
cliff, received its name from Vancouver, and has ever since retained it. 
PORT TOWNSEND. 
Port Townsend forms a basin which is, in all respects, similar to the western basins of Port 
Discovery and Port Washington. Like them it extends from north to south about ten miles ; 
like them, has very regular deep soundings, from 104 to 20 fathoms, and good holding-ground. 
It forms a most safe and spacious harbor. То the east it is covered and separated from Admi- 
ralty Entrance by a peninsula and by Craven’s island. It forms a high, steep cliff of a rich 
species of marrowstone, and Vancouver, who examined it on the 8th May, 1792, therefore 
called it Marrowstone Point.t 
Craven’s island itself was not named by Vancouver, though he recognized it to be an island. 
It received its present name from Wilkes. It is about six miles long from north to south and 
a mile broad, and is separated by Long Harbor from a similar peninsula to the west. 
Long Harbor is a narrow channel five miles long, which branches out from Port Townsend, 
and empties through a very narrow and shallow passage to the south into Oak bay. It was 
first navigated through by Vancouver. Lieutenant Johnstone thought he might return to the , 
north by Oak bay and Port Townsend, but he found these two bays separated and closed by a 
narrow isthmus.{ The Indian name of the channel is Kelisut. 
The eastern coast of Port Townsend is formed by a detached piece of country very similar 
to Craven’s island, which has no proper name on our charts, but might be called Townsend 
peninsula. 
Port Townsend itself received its name from Vancouver, in honor of the Marquis of Town- 
send, one of the lords of the English admiralty who signed Vancouver’s instructions. In the 
year 1854 an accurate survey of this port was made by the United States Coast Survey, the 
results of which were published in the Coast Survey Report of 1855. 
OAK BAY. 
Oak bay is a small harbor to the south of Port Townsend, from which it is риме: bya 
narrow isthmus. Vancouver explored it on the 9th of May, 1792, and named it o pay 
because some of his young men on an excursion on shore had seen some high and beautiful oak 
` trees. 
PORT LUDLOW. 
Port Ludlow is a little bay in the southwestern end of Admiralty Entrance to me northwest 
entry of Hood’s Canal It is slightly indicated on Vancouver's chart, but =ош а name. 
Wilkes surveyed it in 1841 for the first time, and called it after Mr. Ludlow, United States 
naval officer of the war of 1813, who was killed on board the Chesapeake. 
An extensive survey of this port was made in the year 1854 by ань жен Alden, 
Davidson, and Lawson, from the United States Coast Survey, and a chart of it published in 
Coast Survey Report of 1856. 
The bays and headlands on the eastern side of Admiralty Entrance are no 
9 See Vancouver, vol. 1, p. 291. 
4 Vancouver, vol. 1, p. 235. 
{ Vancouver, vol. 1, p. 233. 
t very well defined, 
