QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. 15 B 



accurate view of the rocks.* As seen by myself at a distance of someisiesKerouart 

 miles to the north-east, they appear to form three groups, the first 

 lying close to Cape St. James, consisting of two large rocks, thesecond 

 of one large and several smaller rocks, and the third and furthest 

 southward, of two or three rocks of some size and a number of lesser 

 ones. These little islets are very remarkable in appearance, standing 

 boldly up with rounded tops and vertical cliffs on all sides. Even the 

 smaller rocks have the same pillar-like form, so frequently found where 

 a rocky coast is exposed to the full sweep of a great ocean. They serve 

 as secure breeding places for innumerable gulls, puffins and other sea- 

 birds. The southern point of Cape St. James is a vertical cliff about 

 equal in height to the larger of the islands lying off it. The land 

 gradually rises northward, till about Houston Stewart Channel it has in 

 many places a probable elevation of 2000 feet. Cape St. James appears 

 to be the southern extremity of an island about one mile in diameter, 

 which has heretofore been drawn as forming a part of Prevost Island. 

 The narrow channel which separates it from the latter runs west-south- 

 westward. The east coast of this and Prevost Island to East Pointy is East coast Pre- 

 bold, and frequently formed by a cliff facing the sea. This part of vost slaiJ ' " 

 Prevost Island is indented by two bays or inlets, the southern apparently 

 inconsiderable, the northern probably three or four miles in depth. 



From East Point the shore runs north-westward seven and a quarter Hous on Stew ._ 

 miles to Moore Head, at the south-east entrance of Houston Stewart artChanneI - 

 Channel. The shore is much broken, being»penetrated by several 

 inlets which run back among the high hills. Several small islands lie 

 off it, of which one is bold, densely tree-clad, and has a height of about 

 150 feet. Houston Stewart Channel runs west two and a half miles, 

 and then turning abruptly, south-west three miles. From the knee 

 thus formed Rose Harbour, an inlet nearly three miles long, runs north- 

 ward. Like the main channel, it has a width of about three-quarters 

 of a mile. Its western side, especially to the north, is bordered by high 

 hills, while to the north-east it is separated by a narrow neck of low 

 wooded land from South Cove of Carpenter Bay. A stream which has 

 been called Sedmond River on the chart, enters at its head from the west. 

 At the west entrance to Houston Stewart Channel lies Anthony Island, 

 on which the Indian village generally known as Mnstints is situated, Ninstmts. 

 and a number of smaller islets. ISTo villages exist in other parts of the 

 inlet. Those marked on the chart have been temporary houses, most 

 of which have now disappeared. In the neighborhood of Houston 

 Stewart Channel the hills or mountains everywhere rise steeply from 



* A Voyage Round the World, but more particularly to the North-west Coast of America, by 

 Captain George Dixon. London, 1789, p. 214. 



t Names printed in italics in this portion of the report are these given by myself, or in use by 

 the Indians, but which have not previously been published. 



