QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLAND*. 19 B 



This is a wide inlet which runs southward about four miles, and then 

 turns to the west, in which direction its extremity was not visited. 

 High mountains rise from the shore near its head. 



At the western end of Skincuttle Inlet are three indentations of the 

 coast, of Avhich the southern appears to be George Harbour of Poole. 

 The northern, tying at the entrance of Burnaby Strait, may be called 

 Tangle Cove. It is a well sheltered anchorage for a small schooner, 

 but a shoal, the extent of which is unknown, lies off its mouth. The 

 entrance is between a small island which lies at its south side and two dolomite 



Narrows. 



other little islets to the north. In it lies a rock which uncovers at low 

 water. The mountains at the head of Tangle Cove are steep, and 

 probably reach 3000 feet in height. Part of their upper slopes are 

 bare of trees, but apparently covered with peaty moss, where not com- 

 posed of rock. Two and a half miles northward of Burnaby Strait is 

 Dolomite Narrows. The strait is here not more than a quarter of 

 a mile wide, and the channel is crooked, obstructed by rocks, and shoal, 

 having from six to eight feet only of water at low tide. The current 

 is not strong, however, and our schooner passed safely through, though 

 it is not to be recommended as a passage for any craft larger than a boat 

 or canoe. All parts of Burnaby Strait must, indeed, be navigated 

 with great caution, as there are many rocks, and a large proportion of 

 them are covered at high water. Just south of Dolomite Narrows, 

 from the west side of the strait, opens Bag Harbour, expanding within 

 to a basin nearly a mile in diameter. On the south shore of Burnaby 

 Island, constituting the north side of Skincuttle Harbour, is a bay, with 

 several small islands in front, which may be a good harbour, but was 

 not examined. Further east, in the vicinitj^ of the abandoned copper 

 mine, Blue Jay and Kingfisher Harbours of Poole, are mere rocky 

 coves, scarcely commodious for boats. 



Granite Point, on the north side of the entrance to Skincuttle, is a Granite Point, 

 rather remarkable whitish crag, separated by a narrow neck of low 

 land from the main shore. The east side of Burnaby Island from this 

 j)lace to Scudder Point — a distance of about five miles — was not 

 examined. There is, however, a deep bay to the north of Granite 

 Point, with a high island lying in its mouth. The Bolkus Islands 

 form a chain about two miles long, tying east and west in the centre 

 of Skincuttle Inlet. They are five in number, with many small rocks 

 and reefs. The land is low, and on the western and largest of the islands 

 the soil appears to be good, though now covered with dense forest. 



Burnaby Strait is nine miles in length, running northward six and a Burnaby strait- 

 half miles beyond Dolomite Narrows, and gaining eventually an average 

 width of a mile and a quarter. Nearly abreast Dolomite Narrows on 

 Burnaby Island are two conspicuous mountains — The Tains — estimated 



