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is one-third of a mile wide and 3 miles long, — a good passage for very 

 small vessels, barges, and boats. From Eagle Point to Sunday Point 

 is bi miles : the channel is half a mile wide, with deep water. Two 

 creeks enter on the north shore, the Pimeca and Oluman. They 

 afford good water : at this part the banks are low and marshy, but 

 soon rise in hills. If desirous of taking the channel south of Puget's 

 Island, after passing Rogue's Islet, steer for Framboise Bluff ; but if it 

 be the intention to take the channel on the north side, stand on until 

 nearly up with Sunday Point, and when Lotiva Head bears east, steer 

 for it, avoiding the shoal which lies off Sunday Point. From Lotiva 

 Head the channel runs under the high bluff of the north shore, with 

 deep water; when half a mile above Bag Island, near the east point of 

 Puget's Island, haul over to the shore of Kintshotsh Island, to avoid 

 the shoal which extends from Bell's Bluff to the west a mile, the 

 outer edge of which is half a mile from the north shore. Having 

 brought Bell's Bluff to bear east, you will have entered St. Helen's 

 Reach ; then steer for Oak Point. In taking the south side of Puget's 

 Island, you pass under Framboise Bluff, which rises 600 feet above 

 the river. It is better to keep the shore of the island abroad until 

 the high bluff opens out, then to cross to the south shore, until you 

 pass Ataki Creek, which flows round Kintshotsh Island ; you have 

 then entered St. Helen's Reach, and can steer for Bell's Bluff, keeping 

 mid-channel : this will carry clear of the shoal off Yupat's Island, 

 which extends beyond Kotze Island, and thence to Oak Point. Nat- 

 sox Run passes between Yupat's and Kotze Islands and the south 

 shore : it has only depth of water sufficient for small barges and boats. 



St. Helen's Reach extends from the eastern part of Framboise Bluff 

 to the upper end of the Basaltic Cliff, opposite Oak Point, a distance 

 of 11 miles. The western part is bounded on the north by Puget's 

 Island, which is low and marshy, 4 miles in length, by lh miles in 

 width, and by Kintshotsh Islaud on the south, of like character. 

 It is 64 miles in length, separated by Ataki Creek from the prairie 

 beyond. The eastern part of St. Helen's Reach has the high Basaltic 

 Cliff, extending from Bell's Point to opposite "Weacpuus Islet, on the 

 north, and the low prairie ground of Oak Point, on the south, as its 

 boundaries. The river expands and contracts in width, but the chan- 

 nel preserves its dimensions from one-third to half a mile wide. The 

 depth of water varies from 3i to 11 fathoms. The tide is felt as far 

 up as Oak Point, but its rise and fall here is only 3 feet. At Oak Point, 



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