300 GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. 
1. FrpALGO ISLAND is the first island on the north of Deception Passage. It has Padilla 
bay on the north and Rosario strait on the west, and on the east it is separated from the 
continent by that narrow and shallow channel discovered by Ringgold. In its outlines it is 
somewhat like Orcas and Whidby’s islands. On its western part is situated Mount Erie, of an 
elevation of about 1,250 feet. 
Several deep bays cut into it on different sides, and corresponding peninsulas project out 
from it, which are as yet nameless on our charts. 
The Spaniards and Vancouver, who thought it to be a part of the continent, had-no particular 
name for it. Wilkes gave it the name Perry’s island, in honor of Commodore Perry, United 
States navy, the hero of Lake Erie. In allusion to this, also, the highest mountain of the 
island was named Mount Erie. 
On the English Admiralty charts it is called Fidalgo island, probably with the intention of 
preserving that old name which was given by the Spaniards to what we now call Rosario strait. 
This latter name appears to have prevailed. 
2. BURROW's AND ALLAN ISLANDS. —These are two small islands which lie in a bay of Fidalgo 
island, to the west of it. These two islands are called, in the Voyage of the Sutil and Mexicana, 
Las dos Islas Morros, * (the two Rock islands.) Burrow’s island is the larger, and was called 
after Captain Burrow, United States navy, who lost his life on board the ship Boxer. t 
Allan island was called after Captain Allan, United States navy, who lost his life on board 
the American ship the Argus. After this ship, the bay itself was naméd by Wilkes Argus 
bay. Quite near to these are a few islets and rocks, as Young island, Dun's Rock, and William- 
son's Rock. 
3. PADILLA BAY is a pretty large basin, surrounded on the south and east by Fidalgo island 
and the continental shore, separated on the north from Bellingham bay by the long, sandy 
peninsula of Wilson Point, and covered on the west by Guemes island. To the south of this 
island the bay is connected with Rosario strait by a narrow channel, and to the northeast of 
that island by a broad outlet. In the middle parts of the bay lie several small islets. 
The bay probably received its name, Seno de Padilla, from Elisa, (1791.) Padilla was one 
of the titles of the then reigning viceroy of Mexico, Count Revilla Gigedo y Padilla. Van- 
couver, through his officer, Whidby, entered the bay, gave no particular name to it, and this 
was probably the reason why the old Spanish name was continued. | 
4. GUEMES ISLAND, (48° 34” north latitude, 122° 37” west longitude, ) is an island of a triangular 
shape, to the west of Padilla bay, and separated from Cypress island by Bellingham channel. 
Some smaller islets lie round it, among them Sack’s island, to the northeast. The island 
received its name from the discoverer, Elisa, probably after the then viceroy of Mexico, Count 
Revilla Gigedo, whose family name was Guemes. А town had already been founded on the 
shores of the Gulf of Mexico in 1745, and named, in honor of another viceroy of the same 
family, Don Juan Francisco Guemes, Count of Revilla Gigedo. There is also a little Port 
Guemes on the north side of Vancouver’s island. Vi 
probably from this circumstance the old Spanish name was continued. 
Wilkes called the island Lawrence island, in honor of Captain Lawrence, United States 
navy, who commanded the Hornet, and captured the English vessel Penguin. After this 
English ship Wilkes called a bay on the east side of the island Penguin bay, and he gave the , 
ancouver has no name for this island, and 
© Sutil and Mexicana, p. 45. t Verbal information. 
