QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. 27 B 



to. These upper arms of the inlet aie environed by high and rugged 

 mountains, of which, however, owing to persistently wet weather, no 

 good view was obtained. The passage to Cumshewa is narrow and 

 walled in at both sides by mountains which rise very steeply from it. 

 The land on Louise Island to the north of Kock-fish Harbour is also 

 very high and bold. Like those before described, the shores of this 

 inlet are densely wooded. 



The positions of Reef Island and the Low Islands in Laskeek Bay have 

 not been fixed with any accuracy, and they are merely sketched on the 

 map. The first-named is steep along the water's edge, and a reef runs 

 about half a mile southward from it. 



From the mouth of Selwyn Inlet, the coast runs north-eastward for Coast between 

 seven miles, with several small bays, fully open to the sea, and gener-Cumshewa. 

 ally rocky. About mid-way a remarkable limestone point, named 

 Point Vertical, from the attitude of the beds, projects. It is connected 

 with the main shore by a narrow spit, on which stands an Indian 

 house. North of it are two small islands, — Limestone Islands, — behind 

 which the tide, running southward along the coast, forms a race at ebb. 

 Skedans Bay is strewn with sunken rocks and fully open, and should on 

 no account be entered by vessels. A large stream enters its head, 

 which can be seen at some distance inland forming a high waterfall, 

 and which, according to the Indians, flows out of a lake of some size high 

 among the mountains. The Skedans village forms a semi-circle round Skedans Tillage 

 the head of a small bay or cove — very rocky — which indents the south 

 side of a narrow isthmus, connecting two remarkable nipple-shaped 

 hills with the main shore. This peninsula is situated at the south en- 

 trance point to Cumshewa Inlet, and between it and the Skedans 

 Islands lying off, the tide forms a race. The Skedans Islands form a 

 mark in entering Cumshewa Inlet from the south, but are only sketched 

 on the map. They are low and tree-clad. 



Cumshewa Harbour, of the Admiralty chart, is shown as about five cumsiiewa 

 miles in depth. This opening is in reality, however, a long inlet, run- n et " 

 ning westward fifteen miles, and sending a prolongation southward to 

 Selwyn Inlet. It differs in its somewhat greater width, and the low 

 character of the land on its northern shore from the inlets to the south, 

 and in fact marks the junction, on the east coast of the island, of the 

 mountain region and flat country underlain by the comparatively un- 

 disturbed Cretaceous rocks. There is more beach along the shores than 

 in the southern inlets, and wide tide-flats, indicating shoaler water, 

 which is not only found in the inlet itself, but now extends far off the 

 coast. The shores are quite bold, however, in some places toAvard the 

 head of the inlet, and the water probably deep. The mountains south 

 of the extremity of the inlet and on Louise Island are high and carry 



