NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 



C H A 



II. 



1786. 



ing gale : however, foon after nine o'clock I had the plea- 



fure of feeing the union flag flying on the top of a high 



hill over the Eafl point of the opening, which was the January. 



iignal for aiafe harbour; I immediately made a fignal for ""^yj- 



the boat to return, not thinking it prudent to run in until 



I had the mate's report ; but that no time might be loft, 



I requefted captain Dixon to fend his whale-boat a-head 



to found, and, fhould they meet with fhoal water, to 



continue on it as a mark for the velTels to fail by. 



About ten o'clock Mr. M'Leod returned, and reported 

 that he had found a good harbour, and a place tolerably 

 convenient for watering. When the fignal was made for 

 fhoal water, he was in (tven. fathom water, over a bed of 

 rocks covered with weeds, which came up to the furface, 

 and which were fituated near the middle of the channel. 



We flood in for the harbour under an eafy fail, and at 

 eleven o'clock came to anchor with the befl bower on the 

 Eafl fhore in twelve fathom water, over a fandy bottom, 

 but under the furface I judge it to be a ftifT mud. 



The f^ip was moored with the fl:ream-anchor to the 

 Southward : when moored we were land-locked, except 

 at the entrance we came in by, the Eafl point of which 

 bore North Wefl by Weft half Weft, and the Weft point 

 Wefl by North, diflant from the land to the Northward 

 about three quarters of a mile. 



