QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS. 29 B 



Peninsula. This is a mistake, as the bay there is quite shallow. The 

 best anchorage for a large vessel is probably to bo found on the south 

 side, nearly opposite the Peninsula, and abreast a stretch of low land, 

 at the entrance of a large stream. 



From the entrance to Cumshewa Inlet, the coast runs north-north- a 

 westward to Spit Point, at the south side of Skidegate Inlet, a distance - 

 of sixteen miles. It is indented by two considerable bays, the northern 

 of which may be called Copper Bay, from the fact that some work In 

 been done here at one time in examining a deposit of copper ore. The 

 land is low, and very different in appearance^from that of the coast 

 southward. In a few places it rises at the shore to a height of about 

 200 feet, and generally attains this elevation at some distance inland. 

 The projecting points are generally low and flat, formed of gravel de- 

 posits, elsewhere referred to as probably indicating a slight elevation 

 of the land. In correspondence with the change in the character of 

 the land, the beach becomes flat, and shoal water extends far off shore. 

 Near Cumshewa the beaches are almost entirely composed of boulders, 

 but show more gravel and sand toward Skidegate, though plentifully 

 strewn with erratics, especially near the projecting points. The sur- 

 face of the country is densely wooded with trees of large size. Spit 

 Point is low, and composed of sand deposits, which extending north- 

 ward form the bar or shoal which stretches across the entrance to 

 Skidegate Inlet. 



The country on the north side of the entrance to Skidegate is also Entrance to 

 low. The shoal just referred to runs across from Spit Point toward te l esi 

 Lawn Hill, which may be considered as marking the outer north point 

 of the inlet. The ship entrance is from the north, with a least depth 

 of 11 fathoms. The bar may also be crossed, however, with 3i fathoms 

 of water south of the Bar Eocks, opposite Dead Tree Point. As Skide- 

 gate Inlet has been surveyed and a reliable map is published by the 

 Admiralty (No. 48), it will be unnecessary to add further remarks as 

 to its navigation. The bar is remarkable in sloping off very gradually 

 seaward, while toward the inlet it dips steeply down into water of 

 20 or 30 fathoms. 



Skidegate Inlet runs west-south-westward. At about eight miles skidegate inlet 

 from the bar it is contracted to a width of about a mile and a half 

 between Image Point and that on the north-east side of Alliford Bay. 

 "Within this it opens widely, forming two great expansions, which are 

 separated by Maude Island. The eastern part of the northern expan- 

 sion is called Bear Skin Bay on the chart, while its western extremity, 

 turning north-westward, forms Long Arm; the total length of the 

 Inlet from the bar to the head of Long Arm being about twenty-one 

 miles. The deposit of coal which has been mined is situated in the 



