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A VOYAGE TO 
CHAP. II. 
The Name of the Sound , and Directions for failing into it .— 
Account of the adjacent Country. — Weather. — Climate .— 
Trees.—Other vegetable Productions. — Quadrupeds , whofe 
Shins were brought for Sale.—Sea Animals.—Defcription 
of a Sea Otter. — Birds.—Water Fowl. — Fifh. — Shell-fi/h , &c. 
— Reptiles. — InfeCts. — Stones , &c.—Perfons of the Inhabi¬ 
tants.—Their Colour.—Common Drefs and Ornaments .— 
Occafional Dreffes , and monftrous Decorations of wooden 
Majks.—Their general Difpofitions. — Songs.—Mujical In- 
Jlruments.—Their Eagernefs to pojfefs Iron and other Me¬ 
tals. 
N my arrival in this inlet, I had honoured it with 
the name of King George’s Sound; but I afterward 
found, that it is called Nootka by the natives. The en¬ 
trance is fttuated in the Eaft corner of Hope Bay, in the 
latitude of 49 0 33' North, and in the longitude of 233 0 12' 
Eaft. The Eaft coaft of that bay, all the way from Breakers 
Point to the entrance of the Sound, is covered by a chain 
of funken rocks, that feemed to extend fome diftance from 
the fhore; and, near the Sound, are fome iflands and rocks 
above water. 
We enter this Sound between two rocky points, that lie 
Eaft South Eaft, and Weft North Weft from each other, dif- 
tant between three and four miles* Within thefe points the 
Sound widens confiderably, and extends in, to the North¬ 
ward 
