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cable's length distant, and the anchorage is good in eight or nine 

 fathoms, sand and broken shells. In the bay there are a number of 

 straggling rocks, all well pointed out by kelp. It is high water 

 at the full and change at 9 h. 54m., and the tide rises four feet. 

 Landing, at all times is indifferent, and at full and change, owing to 

 the heavy swell, it requires some skill in winding through the narrow 

 channel, formed by rocks on each side. Two miles north and east 

 is Copper Cove, a convenient place for taking in the ore ; there is 

 anchorage in twelve fathoms, a short distance from the shore. 



After leaving the north point of Cobija Bay, which has a number 

 of stragghng rocks a short distance off it, the coast takes a rather 

 more easterly direction ; generally shallow sand bays, with rocky 

 points, and hills from two to three thousand feet high close to the 

 coast, but no anchorage or place fit for shipping, until you reach 

 Algodon Bay, twenty-eight miles from Cobija. 



This bay is small, and the water deep ; we anchored a quarter of a 

 mile from the shore, in eleven fathoms, sand and broken shells, over 

 a rocky bottom ; its only use is as a stopping-place for water, Should 

 it be required. It may be obtained at the Gully of Mamilla (seven 

 miles to the northward) from a spring, a mile and a half from the 

 beach ; the usual method of bringing it is in bladders made of seal- 

 skin, holding seven or eight gallons each, with which most of the 

 coasters are provided — the only vessels that profit by a knowledge of 

 these places. 



Algodon Bay may be distinguished by a gully leading down to it, 

 and that of Mamilla to the northward, which has two paps on the 

 heights, over the north side of it ; there is also a white islet off Algo- 

 don Point. 



N. 2** W., ten miles from this bay, is a projecting point, called 

 in the Spanish chart San Francisco, but known more generally 

 by the name of Paquiqui ; on the north side of it, and near the 

 extreme, is a large bed of guano, so much used on this coast for 

 manure, that it may be said to be quite a trade. A brig of one 

 hundred and seventy tons was loading with it for Islay at the time 

 we passed ; she was moored head and stern within a cable's length 

 of the rocks, on which a considerable surf was breaking, and the 

 guano was brought off in a balsa to a launch just outside the surf. 

 There is better anchorage farther in the bay ; but this is chosen for 

 convenience. 



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