20 B GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Burnaby Strait, at 1500 feet in height. One and a half miles north of the Narrows, 

 Island Bay, two miles dee]), runs westward. It is named from a num- 

 ber of small islands — about seventeen — which it contains, and may 

 probably be too rocky for a safe harbour. Four miles north of the 

 Narrows, a passage opens westward between the north shore of 

 Burnaby Island and Huxley Island. On the west side of the northern 

 entrance to Burnaby Strait is Skaat Harbour. This is a bay two and 

 three-quarter miles wide, with a total depth of about three miles. In 

 its mouth lies one large island — Wanderer Island — and several smaller 

 ones. The harbour turns into a naiTow inlet in its upper part, which 

 was not visited, and terminates among high mountains forming a por- 

 tion of the axial chain of the islands. Skaat Harbour was not sounded 

 or carefully examined, but from the character of its shores would 

 probably afford good anchorage, especially behind "Wanderer Island, 

 and if so, it is the best for large vessels in this vicinity. It lies near 

 the seaward opening of Juan Perez Sound, All Alone Stone and Monument 

 Rock forming good entrance marks to Burnaby Strait. The harbour 

 will probably be found deepest on the Wanderer Island side, as there 

 is an extensive field of kelp off the opposite shore. The entrance to 

 Skaat Harbour on the southern side of Wanderer Island is very narrow. 

 At the angle formed between it and the shore of Burnaby Strait are 

 two small coves affording anchorage for a schooner, but with wide tide- 

 flats at their heads, which a short distance below low-water mark fall 

 away very rapidly into deep water. The eastern point of Wanderer 

 Island, in line with that of Centre Island, leads over Limestone Rock, a 

 mile to the southward of the latter. This is a dangerous reef, bare 

 only at low water, but not extensive, though a second rock, dry at low 

 water only, lies a short distance south-east of it. 



Burnaby Island The north shore of Burnaby Island, five and three-quarter miles in 

 length, lies east-north-east and west-south-west, and is nearly straight 

 on the whole, though with a few shallow bays, one of which has been 

 called Section Cove, and is again referred to in this report. Alder Island 

 lies about the centre of this stretch of coast. It is about half a mile 

 in diameter, nearly flat, and there is probably a good anchorage be- 

 hind it, which should, however, be approached from the north, as the 

 Saw Reef runs out from the shore of Burnaby Island to the eastward, 

 and this part of the coast is, moreover, broken and rocky, with large 

 fields of kelp extending off it. 



From Scudder Point the shore trends somewhat west of south, allow- 

 ing the outer of the Copper Islands to be seen. The hills on the north 

 side of Burnaby Island are not high, being estimated at from 300 to 

 500 feet. A considerable width of low land stretches back from Scudder 

 Point, covered with an open growth of large but gnarled spruces, the 



