GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. 287 
It is everywhere surrounded by water with the exception of one point, namely, at that 
narrow little isthmus upon which Kellum’s lake is situated, and which we might call Kellum’s 
Lake isthmus. On this western shore of Admiralty Inlet, south of Suquamish Head, may be 
mentioned the following inlets, harbors, points, and islands: 
Point No-Point, five miles to the east-southeast of Suquamish Head. I believe it was so 
called by Wilkes. 
Apple Cove is a very small bay seven miles to the south of Point No-Point. 
Port Madison is a pretty spacious harbor a few miles to the south of Apple Cove. This 
port appears to have been perfectly overlooked by Vancouver. Lieutenant Ringgold explored 
it, and probably gave to it its present name. 
The port has in its inner corner an outlet or passage of about 200 yards wide, which conducts 
to the interior parts of Port Orchard. Port Orchard is a very much secluded and interior 
basin to the southeast of Port Madison. It may be said to consist of a principal body and four 
or five branches running out from it in different directions like the legs of a spider, 
The northeastern of these branches opens into Port Madison by a narrow channel called 
Agatha’s Passage. 
The northwestern runs up a few miles into the interior of the country, and ends in а shallow 
and narrow bay. 
The principal body of Port Orchard runs from north to south, and turning towards the south- 
west ends there, in the interior of the great peninsula, in a similar manner. 
From its southern port still another branch runs to the northwest called Dyes Inlet, which is 
the most western water of the principal body of Admiralty Inlet. 
A fifth branch of Port Orchard runs out towards the southeast and opens into a widely open 
bay, in the midst of which lies the little Blake’s island. 
Even these secluded branches of Admiralty Inlet have still water deep enough for the largest 
class of vessels, and afford superb and well-protected harbors. The only danger is a reef of 
rocks which is nearly in the middle of the southern entrance.* 
Port Orchard was discovered and entered through the south entrance on the 24th of May, 
1792, by Mr. Orchard, one of Vancouver’s officers, when the ships of Vancouver had their 
central station for all their Admiralty Inlet operations at a point near the entrance. Же. Orchard 
surveyed the whole in one day, and did not discover the northeastern outlet into Madison harbor 
or Agatha’s Passage, and also not Dyes Inlet. 
Mr. Ringgold, on his above-mentioned northern survey from Nisqually, spent nine days in 
the survey of this port, (May, 1841,) and discovered what Vancouver had — 
Dyes Inlet was named after one of the officers of Wilkes's exploring expedition. t 
Bainbridge island is a large island to the east of Port Orchard, and cut off from the continent 
by the two above-named outlets and exterior harbors of that basin. 
On the east it is bounded by Admiralty Inlet. It is about eight miles long from north to 
South, and four broad from east to west. i 
On the eastern side it has two little harbors, Eagle harbor and Port Blakely. This latter 
one, north of Restoration Point, has been minutely surveyed by the United States Coast 
of it is contained in the Coast Survey Report of 1856. 
9 Wilkes. 
+ Verbal information. 
Survey, and the chart 
