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1855 Lieutenant Alden, United States Coast Survey, made an extensive survey of it, which is 
published in the Coast Survey Report of 1856. 
Suquamish Harbor is a bay opposite Port Gamble, on the western shore of Hood’s Canal. 
It has a triangular shape, and a long island lies before it. The name Suquamish, also given 
to the above-named point, is derived from an Indian tribe of this name, often mentioned in this 
region. 
Nickolowan Point is the southern extremity of a long peninsula which separates Hood’s 
Canal from Dahap Inlet. It was reached by Vancouver on the 11th of May, 1792, and named 
Hazel Point, in consequence of its producing many of those trees.* Wilkes named this cape 
Takutska Point.t Its present Indian name was probably introduced by the Hudson Bay 
Company. 
Dahap Inlet is the largest and broadest branch of Hood’s Canal. It branches off from it to 
west of Nickolowan Point, and runs ten miles to the north towards Port Discovery. Vancouver 
explored it on the 11th of May, 1792. Though small, it has the extraordinary depth of from 
60 to 70 fathoms nearly to its northern end. A northwestern branch of it, not mentioned either 
by Vancouver or by Wilkes, was discovered in modern times, and called Colicee Inlet. 
Treesald Cove and Sebec Harbor are two small bays opposite each other, to the south of 
Dahap Inlet. 
Vancouver went as far as this point, and sent from there his lieutenant, Johnstone, to the 
east to see whether Hood’s Canal was there closed, or whether it continued still in that 
direction. Johnstone reported that the canal here ended in a cove. The eastern appendage 
of the canal, twelve miles in length, which in this manner escaped him, was discovered by 
Lieutenant Case, of the United States exploring expedition, who found that it was separated 
from Puget Sound by an isthmus only 23 miles broad, and who also discovered on this isthmus 
а small lake called Kellum’s lake. 
THE MAIN BODY OF ADMIRALTY INLET. 
The main body of Admiralty Inlet branches off from the entrance basin at Suquamish Point. 
It runs at first through a more narrow passage between that point and Ariel’s Point to the 
southeast, and then widening, trends directly to the south. . 
Sending out different branches, particularly to the west, and embracing several small and 
large islands, it ends at Point Defiance, at the so-called Narrows, which separates it from 
Puget Sound. It is about 46 miles broad, and 40 nautical miles long. 
Vancouver entered these waters on the 19th of May, 1792, in his large vessel, the Discovery, 
and explored it in all its principal parts. 
Wilkes, in 1841, again surveyed it, and discovered some bays and islands which had been 
overlooked by Vancouver, or to which he did not give true configuration. 
Useless Bay is a wide, open bay, to the east of Suquamish Head, on the southwestern shore 
of Whidby's island. It is not indicated by Vancouver, and it received its present name, I 
believe, from Wilkes. TN 
Skagit Head is the most southern headland of Whidby's island, so called from an important 
iribe of Indians, the Skagits, which inhabited and possessed the whole of Whidby's island: 
Vancouver, though he of course saw it, has no name for it, either in his report or on his 
© Vancouver, vol. 1, p. 239. 
T Wilkes, vol. 4, р. 44. 
