24 B GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OP CANADA. 



with drifted snow-fields. We were overtaken by evening in this inlet 

 on July 2nd, and conld scarcely find a strip of beach wide enough to 

 spread our blankets down on for the night. 



Shuttle Island, though low, is rocky. The channel to the west of it 

 is probably deep enough for vessels of any class, but should not be used 

 till it has been properly surveyed. There is a rock, covered at high 

 water, on the west side of its northern entrance. 



A mile and a half further northward, and opposite the inner end of 



Echo Harbour. Eichardson Inlet, is Echo Itarbour. The entrance to this harbour looks 

 like a shallow cove from outside. "We entered it on Jul} 7 4th in search 

 of a place to anchor, and were surprised to find the passage into the 

 harbour. It runs southward about a mile, and is surrounded by high 

 hills which toward its head rise to rugged mountains. The outer part 

 of the entrance is about 10 fathoms in depth ; the sides then approach, 

 leaving a channel scarcely 300 yards wide between abrupt rocky 

 shores. In the harbour proper the depth is everywhere about 15 

 fathoms, decreasing gradually toward the head for a short distance, 

 and then running steeply up to a flat which is partly dry at low water, 

 and above high water mark forms a narrow grassy beach. The bottom 

 is soft mud, and excellent holding ground. A very narrow passage 

 leads westward from the bottom of the harbour into a wonderfully 

 secluded little basin, scarcely a quarter of a mile in diameter. With 

 the exception of a channel in the centre, this is nearly dry at low 

 water. Into its head flows a large brook, coming from the mountains 

 to the south-westward. 



Highmoun- Two miles north west of the entrance to Echo Harbour, the shore line 



Kiun-kwoi Bay falls back to form Klun-kwoi Bay. This runs up in several arms, which 

 were not minutely examined, among the bases of rugged snow-clad 

 mountains, which rise very steeply from the shores, or at the sides of 

 the narrow valleys by which the heads of the inlets are continued in- 

 land. The highest peaks probably exceed 5000 feet in altitude, and 

 the desolate grandeur of the scenery of the region is almost oppressive. 

 The axial mountains of Moresby Island form a high and partly snow- 

 clad sierra from the north end of Juan Perez Sound to this place. They 

 appear to culminate here, and are not such a prominent feature further 

 southward. It is probably to this part of tne range that Perez's name 

 of Sierra de San Cristoval may be applied with greatest propriety. 



Crescent Inlet. Crescent Inlet maybe considered as forming the extension northward 

 of Darwin Sound. It turns gradually through nearly half a circle, 

 from a north-north-west bearing to a direction nearly west-south-west, 

 and is over four miles in length, though its actual extremity was not 

 visited. It is a fiord, with steep mountainous and wooded sides, but it is 

 probably not so deej) as most similar inlets, as there are stretches of 



