110 Geographical Notices. 
intended if his expedition was successful to go down to York — 
Factory, one of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s posts, im the | 
rival in ee Hall had a party of five men with him all — 
armed, and he proposed to fight his way to King William’s 
Land fe the natives opposed him.’ a 
I. Report or Hon. A. poets oN THE NoRTHWEST 
Boun 4 
Some time since we called seentoa to the are ae maps 
of the regions adjacent to the disputed boundary of the United 4 
States and British possessions in the Northwest, published by 
Archibald Campbell, Esq., U. 8. Boundary Commisioner. His 4 
Report, which has since been printed (Washington, 1868, 270 
pp. 8vo), contains much geographical information, especially j 
respecting San Juan and the neighboring islands in dispute |. 
(pp. 128-142). The document and the map together are a — 
very important contribution to our knowledge of a region 
in respect to which we were nearly plunged into war. We — 
make a single extract descriptive of the San Juan island, re- 
gretting that we have not room for a more complete synopsis a 
of this important document. 4 
San Juan Island is the most western of the Haro group, and has | 
an area of about fifty-four square miles. Its greatest length 8 — 
about fourteen and a half miles; its general shape being very = 
Se dae the width Masia at different localities ; its est a 
is about six and a h es. Low ranges of hills trend along its | 
ste ide being the — 
hi 
about one thousand feet. irhtec ranges slope out toward the no 
and there are no elevations of any consequence on the norther - 
‘shore of 1 the island. Between these hill ranges, near the center f 
the island, lies a basin-like country, gently undulating in its chat 
acter. There are extensive Ajeokes B in several localities, and from 4 
emit on n s alm ost throngho a 
tr. The greatest amount of arable land i is found within 
sout | third of the island. 
others cs Hes a or less ti 
island, he souther Ser valley contains 
