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name of the American vessel to the narrow passage which separates Fidalgo island бош Guemes 
island, and which he named Hornet’s harbor. 
5. CYPRESS ISLAND (48° 36! north latitude, 122° 43’ west longitude) lies to the west of Guemes, 
and is of an equal size. Like all these islands, it is pretty well wooded; is composed of high, 
rocky mountains and steep perpendicular cliffs,* and has, in the centre, Lake Mountain, of 
1,525 feet elevation. At a small distance from the north point of the island lies Rock island; 
to the east the Cone islands; to the west, in a large bay, Strawberry island; and the southern 
point of Cypress island is surrounded by a number of rocks. 
On the Spanish charts I find no name for this island. Broughton saw this island on his pre- 
liminary reconnoissance of these regions, and discovered, on its southwestern side, a bay, which 
he called Strawberry bay. Т Vancouver anchored in this bay on the 6th of June, 1792, and 
adopted that name. The island itself was named by Vancouver Cypress island, from the 
abundance of Cypress which he found there. } Wilkes called that little islet in Strawberry 
bay, which Vancouver left nameless, Hautboy island, from that kind of strawberries which is 
very common in North America, and usually called Hautboy in the United States.§ 
6. BELLINGHAM CHANNEL (48° 357 north latitude, 122° 40’ west longitude) is a broad passage 
between Cypress and Guemes islands. It runs to the N.NE., and is the best passage from the 
southern part of Rosario strait to Bellingham bay in the east. 
The Spaniard (Elisa) named it Canal de Guemes, from the island to the south. Its present 
name is derived from its geographical position with respect to Bellingham bay. 
Т. SINCLAIR’s BAY (389 37’ north latitude, 122° 41’ west longitude) is a little island to the 
northeast of Cypress island. It has on the Spanish Admiralty charts (Madrid, 1795) the name 
Isla de Aguayo. Aguayo was, like Padilla and Guemes, one of the titles of the viceroy of 
Mexico, Count of Revilla Gigedo. It received its present name from Wilkes. 
8. VENDOVI ISLAND is a still smaller island to the west of Sinclair. It received its name by 
Wilkes, from the name of an Indian whom Wilkes brought on board his vessel from the Feejee 
(or Viti) island to these northern quarters. To the N.NW. of Vendovi lie the Viti Rocks, 80 
named in connexion with the former named, from the home of the Indian Vendovi, the Viti 
islands.§ 
9. BELLINGHAM Bay (48° 40’ north latitude, 122° 52 
eastern bay to the east of Rosario straits. It may be consi 
of the Gulf of Georgia, and it therefore always attracted, in a hi 
his bay for a further passage towards the east. 
It has an oval shape and a length of about 16 nautical miles from N.NW. to and * n 
the greater part surrounded by the continental shore, and half closed ы the wes 4 р 
sula of William Point on the south, and the peninsula of — on е - : а 
Between these two points lie the southern part of Lummi 18/804, Elisa’ в E. : epe 
island, which further help to close the bay. The bay may be said to have two : өзнің : 
divisions—one to the southwest of Point William, which is, par excellence, called be mh 
bay, and one to the northeast of Point Francis, which has on oar — the name yer ay. 
The bay seems to be the most shallow of all the waters of this region; the deepest Wires 
at the entrance are from 20 to 30 fathoms, and from there they seem to decrease regula he 
the east, south, and north, to 10, 5, 3, and 1 fathom. The shallowness of the bay correspon 
west longitude) is the largest and most 
dered to be the southeastern extremity 
gh degree, the attention of 
early navigators, who searched in t 
rbal information. 
* Vancouver. + Vancouver, vol. I, p 292. Vancouver, р. 294. § Verbal i 
