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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Indian villages, channel is 6 fathoms. Two deserted Indian villages (Kak-oh and 

 Kioo-sta) lie on the south side of Parry Passage, near its west entrance. 

 The water is here shoal and rocky for some distance off shore, and off' 

 the entrance point a sandstone reef runs northward half-way across 

 the passage. On the north side, west of Lucy Island, is a deep cove, 

 with high banks and cliffs surrounding it. This is doubtless that 

 referred to as Henslung in Imray's Pilot, and said to be a good 

 anchorage. Bruin Bay, abreast of Lucy Island on the south side of 

 the channel, may also be used as an anchorage. It is, however, rather 

 open to the north-east, and is not sheltered from the tide, which forms 

 a race in Parry Passage. The flood runs eastward, leaving the east 

 end of the passage with a north-easterly direction. The ebb runs in 

 the opposite direction, and sets round the point west of Henslung with 

 great force. Cloak Bay forms the western entrance to Parry Passage, 



Cape Knox. lying between the south-west shore of North Island and Cape Knox. 

 It is about two and a half miles wide, with a similar depth. Some 

 rocks on which the sea breaks only in heavy weather lie some distance 

 off the North Island shore, and there are also a couple of remarkable 

 pointed islands on this side. The east side of North Island affords no 

 good anchorage. Cape Knox is a lotig narrow tongue of land, on which 

 are a few low hi lis. It appears to be formed throughout of the same hard 

 intrusive rock as Lucy Island, and may be considered as representing a 

 gigantic dyke of this material running in an east and west direction. 

 Its south side is bold, and off it lie several rocks, the farthest out at a dis- 

 tance of about three and a half miles off the cape. On these the swell of 

 the Pacific never ceases to break with great fury. A rough trail about 

 a mile in length leads from the Kioo-sta Indian village across the neck 



Lepas Bay. of land at the base of the promontory of Cape Knox to Lepas Bay on 

 the open west coast. From the point to the south of the bay a con- 

 siderable range of the coast to the south-westward can be seen. It is 

 rough, with cliffs and pinnacles of rock, and breakers extend far off the 

 coast. 



ISforth Island. North Island is entirely composed of low land, no point probably 

 reaching a height of 300 feet. It is densely wooded. The land to the 

 south of Parry Passage is similar in character. From Lucy Island, at 

 the western extremity of North Island, hills of some height are seen 

 coming out to the coast nearly abreast of Frederick Island, about 

 fifteen miles to the south-westward. From this point of view Frederick 

 Island is well open from the main shore, a fact showing the inaccuracy 

 of the outline of the islands as represented on the Admiralty chart 

 (No. 2430.) 



According to the notes given in Imray's Pilot, before referred to, the 

 west coast, from Parry Passage to Frederick Island, appears to afford 



