38 B GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OP CANADA. 



only, and the second or Tsoo-skatli still less, about six feet. On 

 August 13th it was high water at the entrance of Masset Sound at 

 lh. 15m. P.M., while in the narrow entrance to Tsoo-skatli, twenty- 

 three and a half miles distant, the flood had just caused a reversal of 

 the current at Oh. 20m. 



Masset to vira- The coast between Masset and Virago Sounds is everywhere low, 

 and differs from that east of Masset in being rocky or covered with 

 boulders. No wide sandy bays occur. The points are generally of 

 low rocks, dark in colour and of Tertiary age. The water is shoal far 

 off shore, with wide fields of kelp. The trees along the shore are not 

 of great size, and are interspersed with occasional open grassy spaces. 



NadenHarbour Yirago Sound, constituting the entrance to Naden Harbour, is situated 

 in the bottom of a deep bay, in which, according to the Admiralty 

 sketch, the water averages about 4 fathoms in depth. The shoalest 

 water lies a little outside the narrow sound, and is 3J fathoms. In the 

 sound the water is from 8 to 15 fathoms. The sound is less than two 

 miles in length, and leads into a spacious harbour about four miles in 

 greatest length, and two in width, with an average depth of 8 to 10 

 fathoms. Low land densely wooded with spruce (A. Menziesii) and 

 hemlock (A. Mertensiana) of fine growth borders the whole harbour. 

 Eock appears on the shore only near the bottom of the harbour and at 

 the Kung Indian village, in the sound. The south-eastern shore of the 

 harbour is low, with wide tide-flats, the north-western comparatively 

 bold. On the sketch of the harbour which accompanies the report, 

 the soundings in the bay and sound, with the outlines of the shoals, 

 are adapted from the Admiralty sketch before referred to. Owing to 

 the inaccuracies in form of the older plan, the channel may not be 

 quite correctly laid down, and should be navigated with caution. 



Naden River. The Naden River enters the harbour at its south-east corner, and is 

 probably the largest river on the Queen Charlotte Islands. It flows 

 from a large lake, which according to the Indian accounts must be ten 

 miles or more in diameter. A canoe can be poled up the river in 

 about half a day to the lake, but the stream has lately become encum- 

 bered with many fallen trees. We rowed nearly two miles up the 

 river in a large boat at high tide. Its general course is a few degrees 

 west of south, and with the exception of a few swampy flats, its banks 

 are densely wooded. Several smaller streams enter the harbour ; one, 

 in the south-west corner, is called Te-ka by the Indians, on the 

 Admiralty sketch Stanley Eiver. 



Sites for saw- Before many years extensive saw-mills will doubtless be established 

 on Naden Harbour. It is well situated for the export of lumber. The 

 quality of the spruce timber is excellent, and besides the immediate 

 shores of the harbour, logs might probably be run down the Naden 

 Eiver from the lake above. 



