NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. Hi 



and well flickered from the inclemency of the weather. ^ ^^ ^ ^• 

 This inclined me to think that the Ruffians we found in Coal ■ — ■;- — ^ 

 Harbour had been up the river and quarrelled with the j'uiy. 

 natives ; and I began to fear that our fuccefs in the river '^' ^^ ^^' 

 would be very fmall ; however, I determined to fland on, 

 and leave nothing unattempted towards attaining the prin- 

 cipal objed: of our voyage. At ten o'clock we weighed 

 and flood up the river with the flood and a light breeze 

 from the Southward. The ebb making ftrong at eight Friday 2s.. 

 o'clock in the morning, we could not flem it with a lig.ht 

 breeze ; therefore anchored in twenty-four fathoms,, over 

 a rocky bottom; Anchor Point bearing South, 30° Eaft, 

 diftant five leagues ; the Volcano Mount South Weft half 

 Weft ; the extremes of an ifland on the Weft fhore,. from> 

 North, 62° Weft, to North, 48° Wefl, diftant about five 

 leagues. At the time we anchored, the tide run four- 

 miles an hour ; the ebb fetting from the North by Eaft,, 

 and the flood from the South by Weft, and about half- 

 tide it run nearly five miles an hour. Our latitude was 

 60° 9' North, and we found 23° 15' Eafterly variation.. 

 The land on the V/eftern fide near the fhore appearing; 

 very pleafant, and likely to be inhabited, I determined to- 

 ftand over and look for anchorage. At four o'clock a 

 point of land which contracts the river to the Weftwardl 

 bore North 54.° Weft, five miles diftant. We now had 

 foundings from 20 to 25 fathoms of water over a rocky bot- 

 tom; but after hauling round the point, we fhoaled it,, and. 

 at fix o'clock, having thirteen fathoms water over a fhingly 

 bottom, we came-to with the beft bower ; the Northern- 

 moft land in fight on the Weft fhore, bearing North 2o"Eafl',^ 

 and the diftance from the neareft land about five miles*. 



