M C O O K ’s VOYAGE, 
had filled them : I therefore hauled found the lfland, and en* 
tered a bay, which lies between that and Queen Charlotte’s 
Sound, leaving three more illands, which lay clofe under the 
weftern Ihore, between 3 and 4 miles within the entrance, on 
our ftarboard hand: while we were running in, we kept the 
lead continually going, and had from forty to twelve fathom. 
At fix o’clock in the evening, we anchored in eleven fathom 
with a muddy bottom, under the well: fit ore, in the fetond cove, 
that lies within the three illands ; and as foon as it was light 
the next morning, I took a boat, and went on Ihore to look 
for a watering place, and a proper birth for the Ihip, both 
which I found, much to my fatisfa&ion. As foon as the Ihip 
was moored I fent an officer on Ihore to fuperintend the water- 
ing, and the carpenter, with his crew, to cut wood, while the 
long-boat was employed in landing the empty calks. 
In this employment we were bufy till the 30th, v/hen the 
wind feeming to fettle at S. E. and our water being nearly 
completed, we warped the Ihip out of the cove, that we might 
have room to get under fail : and at noon I went away in the 
pinnace to examine as much of the bay as my time would 
admit. 
After rowing about two leagues up it, 1 went alhore upon 
a point of land on the weftern fide, and having climbed a 
hill, I faw the weftern arm of this bay run in S. W. by W. 
about five leagues farther, yet I could not difeover the end of 
it : there appeared to be feveral other inlets, or at leaft fmall 
bays, between this and the north weft head of Queen Char- 
lotte’s Sound, in each of which, I make no doubt, there is 
anchorage and lhelter, as they are all covered from ' the fea 
wind by the illands which lie without them. The land about 
this bay, as far as I could fee of it, is of a hilly furface, chiefly 
covered with trees, Ihrubs, and fern, which render travelling 
difficult and fatiguing. In this Excurfion J was accompanied 
by Mr. Banks and Dr. Solander, who found feveral new plants. 
We met with fome hutts, which feemed to have been long de- 
ferted, but faw no inhabitants. Mr. Banks examined feveral of 
the ftones that lay upon the. beach, which were full of veins, and 
had a mineral abearance ; but he did not .difeover any thing 
jn them which he knew to be ore : if he had an opportunity to 
examine any of the bare rocks, perhaps he might have been 
more fortunate. *He was alfo of opinion that what I had taken 
for irrrble in another place, was a mineral fubftance ; and that, 
confioering the correfpondence of latitude between this place 
gird South- America, it was not improbable but that, by a pro- 
per examination, fomething very valuable might be found. 
At my return in the evening, I found all the wood and wa- 
fer on board, and the Ihip ready for the fea; I refolved 
therefore to quit the country, and return home by luch a 
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