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in barter for nails. Before the entrance into this canal was 

 B round iiland, throe or iour miles in circuit, which obtained 

 the name of S/uart's IJlaml. Quitting Difohlioii Soiitul, iu 

 lat. 50° 11'. long. 235" 21'. they palTcd through an alllm- 

 blage of ifland!! and rocks, and in the midil of \vh;ile'i and 

 feals, to more plcafant (liores, from wliich the friendly In- 

 dians came to vifit them, with youn^- birds, molHy fca-fowl, 

 fifh, and fome berries, which they bartered for t inkets ; 

 and they anchored about half a mile to the northward of 

 Pouil Mud-e, in lat. 50°. long. 2j55'^ 9', where was a kn-ge 

 village of the natives, who co'iidutted thcinfelves with great 

 civility and refpetl, and who were not fewer in number than 



fno pcrfons. Near Johnllone's Straits was a point, called 

 'oint Cbalham, in lat. 50^ 19''. long. 234=' 45'. About ten 

 miles from this puint they anchored under a narrow ifland, 

 diilinguirned by the name ot TI.>urio'w'' s Iflaiui. To a fnug 

 and commodious port, to which, they afterwards arrived, 

 t'ley gave the name of Port Neville ; near which was a large 

 tillage, the inhabitants of which underftood the language 

 of Nootka, and who bartered with the Ikins of the fea- 

 otter of excellent quality, lor (heet-copper and blue cloth. 

 Here they found the fabrication ot mats for various pur- 

 pofes, and a kind of balket, wrought fo clofcly as to con- 

 tain water without the leall leakage ; and in this manufac- 

 ture the women were chieiiy employed. They next pro- 

 ceeded by Call's Canal, in lat. 50° 42^'. long. 234° 3^'. 

 Knight's Canal, in lat. 51" l'. long. 234" 13'. and Dcep-J'ea 

 Blujf, a point of land in lat. 50" 52' long. 232°, through an 

 extenlive clufter of iflands, rocky inlets and rocks, called 

 Brougl.'ton's ylrchlpclago, to a llatlon in lat. 50° 35'. long. 

 233° 19'. Afterwards they entered a channel called Fife's 

 Palf.-.ge, and found its eallern point, named P'Ant Duff, to be 

 in l;it. 50° 4S'. long. 233° 10'. PalFnig Po'tnt Philip, at 

 the diftance of eiglit miles from Deep Sea Bluff, they 

 reached the bafe of a remarkable mountain, in lat. 51° i'. 

 long. 233° 20', called Mount Stephens, which is thus marked 

 in the author's chart, and may feem as an excellent guide 

 to the entrance of the various channels with which this 

 countiy abounds. The next place of their meeting was 

 named Point Beyks, in lat. 50° 51'. long. 232° 52'. near 

 the weft point of a channel called U'ells's Paffiige. Having 

 purfued their courfe through a channel not more than half a 

 mile wide, bounded on one lide by ifiands, rock?, and 

 breakers, which appeared almoft to meet the continental 

 fhore on the other, they anchored in lat. 51° 2'. long. 232° 

 25'. They afterwards proceeded through a channel about 

 two miles wide, between rocks and rocky ides, which feemed 

 to be connefted with the fouthern broken (hore, and reached 

 that part of the coall that had been vifited and named by 

 feveral of the traders from Europe and India. The inlet 

 through which they had lately paffed was ^leeti Charlotte's 

 Sound, fo called by Mr. S. Wedgborough, in Auguft 1786 ; 

 an opening on the continental (hore had in the fame year 

 been named Smith's Inlet, by Mr. J. H^nna ; a high dlftant 

 mountain that appeared to be leparated from the main l;nd, 

 formed part of a clufter denominated by Mr. Duncan, Cal- 

 •Bert's IJIands ; and the channel between them and the main 

 land had been called by Mr. Hanna, Fitzhugh's Sound. 

 Their eilimated latitude in this fituation was 51° 4'. and 

 long. 232° 8'. They next Hood acrofs Charlotte's Sound 

 for the entrance of Smith's inlet ; afterwards (leering along 

 the eaflern fide of Calvert's iiland, they fought for Port 

 Safety, laid down in Mr. Duncan's chart, or fome other 

 convenient anchorage. A cove within the fouth entrance 

 of Fitzhugh's Sound, afforded them a fecure and comfort- 

 able retreat from the dangers to vvliich they had been ex- 

 yofed, and they called it Safely Cove. Determining to 



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abandon the nonhern furvey of the continental fhore fof 

 this feafon, they made the bell of tiielr way toward* 

 Nootka Sound, at which port they anchored on the aRth 

 of Augull 1792. In this furvey,' they had traced the 

 wcllern continental Ihore of America, with all its various 

 turnings, windings, luimeious arms, inlets, creeks, bays, 

 &c. from the lat. of 39^ 5'. long. 236° 36'. to point Men- 

 zies, in lat. 52'' 18'. long. 232-' 55'. ; and they found that 

 none of the channels which they explored extended more 

 than 100 miles to the eallward of the entrance into the 

 ftrait of Juan de I'uca : they alfo found tliat the land form- 

 ing the north iide of that ilrait is part of an iiland, or ra- 

 tl-.er of an Archipelago, extending nearly 100 leagues in 

 length from fouth-eall to north-well ; and on the lide of 

 this land moft dillant from the continent is Nootka Sound. 

 In Oiflober 1792, our navigators left Nootka Sound, and 

 proceeded to re-examine the coafl of New Albion to the 

 louthward, and particularly a river and a iiaibour difcovered 

 by Mr. Clray, commander of the Columbia, between the 

 46th and 47th degrees of north latitude. Tliey direded 

 their courfe towards Cape Clalfct, to which they reftored 

 Captain Cook's original appellation of Cape Flattciy. One 

 ot the moll confpicuous promontories fouthward from tliia 

 cape was Point de los Keys, as it is called by the Spaniards, 

 in lat. 38° o'. long. 237"^ 24'. Southward of this point, the 

 fhore forms the north point of a bay, in which, according to 

 the Spaniards, Sir Francis Drake anchored, in the vicinity of 

 which is a port called by the Spaniards Bodega. They next 

 proceeded to port St. Francisco, a Spanilh fettlement.iii 

 I'^t- .37° 4*^' 30". and long. 237° 52' 30". The mean varia- 

 tion of the compal's was 12° 48'. eart. I^eaving this port, 

 they failed to Monterrey, another Spanifli fcttlemcnt. 

 From hence they fteered towards the Saiulwich idands. 



In April 1793 our navigators again vilited the coaft of 

 New Albion ; they firll faw the coaft at Cape Mendocino, 

 and anchored, on the 2d of May, in Porto de la Trinidad, 

 fo called by the Sjjaniards, who difcovered it in 1775 ! 1^"^ 

 they found it a lei's convenient harbour than they had been 

 led to expeft from the defeription given of it in the journal 

 of Don Francifco Maurelli, tranilated by the Honourable 

 Daines Barrington. The inhabitants of an Indian village 

 in this neighbourhood, who vilited the lliips in their canoes, 

 finging like the other Indians as they drew near, and traf- 

 ficked in bows and arrows, inferior fea-otter ft<ins, fmall 

 herrings, and flat iilh. They were lloutly made, but of a 

 lower llature than any other Indians on this coaft. Their 

 perfons were mutilated or disfigured, citlier for ornament or 

 from a regard to fome religious inftitution, or for fome 

 other unknown purpofe. AH the teeth of both fexcs were, 

 by fome proccfs, ground uniformly down, horizontally, to 

 the gums ; the women efpecially, carrying the falhlon to an 

 extreme, had tlieir teeth reduced even below this level ; and 

 ornamented their lower lip with three perpendicular columns 

 of pundtuation, one from each sorner of the mouth, and 

 one in tlie middle, occupying three-fifths of the lip, and 

 chin. The latitude of the ihip's ilation was 41° 3'. and 

 that of Rochy Point, five miles to the north, 41° 8'. and 

 the longitude of Trinidad bay 236" 6'. From Trinidad, 

 pinfuing their courfe to latitude 47" 53'. longitude 233° 17'^ 

 they faw the coaft of the iiland of ^ladra and Fancowver, 

 and were within a league of Ponta de Perron ; and paffing 

 along the Ihore of tlie ille de Ferron, they proceeded to 

 Nootka, and anchored in Friendly Cove, From hence they 

 failed to Fitzhugh's Sound, and recommenced their exa- 

 mination at the part where it had been difcontinued in the 

 preceding year. The fui-vey now made, in moll of its tir- 

 cumllanccs, referabkd the former. They found the fame 



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