290 GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. 
Puget, in company with Whidby, surveyed, in boats, nearly all the intricate passages of this 
sound during a fortnight, from the 19th to the 27th of May. 
These officers remaining out longer than was expected, Vancouver himself followed in boats, 
taking, however, the eastern and southern shores, because he thought they might have con- 
fined themselves to the western and northern shores. | 
Vancouver, in this boat expedition, reached, on the 28th of May, the southernmost point of 
our present Budd’s inlet, which we mark still on our present charts with ** Vancouver’ s farthest,’ 
and where, in late years, the promising town of Olympia has sprung up. 
From here Vancouver returned to the north, to his central station at Restoration Point, 
thinking that Puget would have done the rest. Many parts of Puget Sound were in this 
manner doubly surveyed by Puget and by Vancouver himself. 
Wilkes gave names to all the inlets of this sound which, in Vancouver's report, had not been 
named. Nearly all the names which he gave them were in compliment to the officers of the 
squadron, as Budd's inlet, Eld's inlet, Totten's inlet, Case's inlet, Hartstene's inlet, Pickering 
Passage, Peal Passage, Dana's Passage, Carr's inlet, &c. Some of the names also were given 
in compliment to the officers of the Hudson Bay Company, as, for instance, Anderson island, 
McNeil island, Ketron island. 
These names of the American Exploring Expedition, for the greater part, have been adopted 
by the Coast Survey, but it is very likely that all these inlets, islands, and points, had other 
local names given to them by the Hudson Bay Company, who have had, since 1830, a fort or 
settlement in the very centre of them, at the mouth of Nisqually river, and who were perfectly 
familiar with them. 
The whole of Puget Sound was surveyed again in later years by R. M. Inskip. 
A comparison of the charts of Wilkes and Inskip gives, with respect to names, the following 
result: The Anderson island of Wilkes is called by Inskip Fisgard island; McNeil island, 
Duntze island; Ketron island, Kittson island; Fox island, Rosario island; Drayton рей 
Crawford channel; Park pass, Moore’s bluff. 
Inskip has added the following names: Thompson cove and Rodd bay for little harbors on 
Fisgard island; Ryder channel and Bruce channel for passages between the islands; Scarboro’ 
shoals for certain shoals to the south of Fox island ; Heath bay for a cove to the northeast of 
. Kittson or Ketron island; Gordon Point for a cape in the same locality. Some of Inskip’s 
names have been preferred on our Coast Survey charts to those of Wilkes. 
Nisqually river is the most important river which enters Puget Sound. It is about sixty 
miles long, and comes in a northwestern direction from the Cascade mountains, where it rises 
between Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens. It runs perfectly parallel with Puyallup river, 
which empties into Commencement bay, and is in size and every other respect similar to this. 
Its name was introduced into geography by the Hudson Bay Company, who have had, since 
1830, a fort at its mouth called Fort Nisqually. At the mouth of the river lies a bank called 
on Wilkes’s chart Mud flat, and in Inskip’s Inskip bank. 
In the English parliamentary documents on the subject of Vancouver’s island the name of 
the river and the fort are usually written N asqually. 
Mount Rainier (see sketch) is one of the highest and most prominent peaks of the Cascade 
