THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
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CHAP. VIII. 
Mr. And erfo?fs Remarks on the Country near Queen Char - 
to tie's Sound.—"The Soil .— Climate . — Weather. — Winds . — 
Frees. — Plants. — Birds. —F?/A —Other Animals.'—Of the 
Inhabitants.—Defcription of their Perfons.—Fheir Drefs.— 
Ornaments. — Habitations. — Boats.—Food and Cookery.— 
Arts. — Weapons.—Cruelty to Prifoners.—Various Cujloms . 
—Specimen of their Language. 
T HE land every where about Queen Charlotte’s Sound , 777 . 
is uncommonly mountainous, riling immediately , Februar y- 
from the fea into large hills with blunted tops. At conli- 
derable diftances are valleys, or rather impreffions on the 
fides of the hills, which are not deep; each terminating 
toward the fea in a fmall cove, with a pebbly or fandy 
beach; behind which are fmall flats, where the natives 
generally build their huts, at the fame time hauling their 
canoes upon the beaches. This lituation is the more 
convenient, as in every cove a brook of very fine water 
(in which are fome fmall trout) empties itfelf into the 
fea. 
The bafes of thefe mountains, at lead; toward the fliore, 
are conftituted of a brittle, yellowifh fand-ftone, whiclrac- 
quires a bluifli call, where the fea waflies it. It runs, at 
fome places, in horizontal, and, at other places, in oblique 
ftrata\ being frequently divided, at fmall diftances, by thin 
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