38 A VOYAGE TO [East Coast: 
amuxis! connected with Keppel Bay and Port Curtis, independently of the 
Sunday 22. time keepers. 
A fresh wind from the south-eastward had blown all day, 
and raised so much surf on the north side of the port, that our water- 
ing there was much impeded ; a midshipman and party of men 
remained on shore with casks all night, and it was not until next 
Monday 23. evening that the holds were completed and pine logs got on board. 
The water was very good ; it drained down the gully to a little beach 
between two projecting beads which have rocky islets lying off them. 
The gully is on the west side of the northern entrance, and will 
easily be known, since we sent there on first coming to an anchor, 
PL Xvm.) in the ex P e ctation of finding water, but Mr. Westall’s sketch will 
view 9.) obviate any difficulty. 
There were pine trees in the watering gully and on the neigh- 
bouring hills ; but the best, and also the most convenient, were 
those upon Entrance Island, some of them being fit to make 
top masts for ships. The branches are very brittle ; but the car- 
penter thought the trunks to be tough, and superior to the Norway 
pine, both for spars and planks : turpentine exudes from between 
the wood and the bark, in considerable quantities. 
For a ship wanting to take in water and pine logs, the most 
convenient place is under Entrance Island, where we lay in the 
Investigator ; indeed fresh water was not found in any other place ; 
but this anchorage is not tenable against a strong south-east wind. 
At the entrance of the southern arm, just within Cape Clinton, a ship 
may lie at all times in perfect safety ; and might either be laid on 
shore or be hove down, there being 3 fathoms close to the rocks, at 
each end of the beach ; it is moreover probable, that fresh water 
might be there found, or be procured by digging at the foot of the 
hills. In the southern arm the bottom is muddy ; but it is of sand 
in other parts of the port. 
Of the country round Port Bowen not much can be said in 
praise ; it is in general either sandy or stony, and unfit for cultivation ; 
