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from the weftern fhore of the inlet, in latitude g.g° 29', longitude 2290
15'. Its furface is uneven, and its diameter regularly decreafes to a .few L. — -1
feet at its apex, which is nearly flat, and feemed to be in every direction
perpendicular to the center of its bafe; its height, by a rude meafure-
ment, was found to-be upwards of two hundred and fifty,feet. The fiffures
and fmall chafms in its fides, quite up to its fummit, afforded nourifh-
ment to fome fmall pine trees and various fhrubs. The Louth and eaftern
part of its bafe is an intire bed o f fand; to the north, about two hundred
yards from it, extended a ledge o f rocks, that ftretched a fmall dif-
tance, and was yifible only, at low tide, beyond which the bottom was
unfathomable with our lines. ...
The natives attended us for a fhort time, but finding that our courfe
was not directed towards their habitations, they retired; after having
given us Jo underftand by figns, that at night we fhould find the inlet
clofed on all fides, that we fhould fleep at its termination, and requefted
that on ‘öuf return we would vifit their habitations.
We faon arrived at tlie point that had in appearance formed an opening
in the. eaftern fhore‘f,and found that o u r . conjectures had been well
founded; . it being the fouth point of a branch, in general about three
quarters of a mile wide, irregularly extending n. 53 e. 2 leagues, with a
cove on the fouthern Chore, and forming at the above extent two other
coves; one in a direction s. 24 e., two miles and a half long, the other
north,' two mijes long, terminating in latitude gg° 37^', longitude 229*
29'. The examination o f this infignificant branch, winding between an
immenfe'bbdy of high, barren, fnowy mountains, occupied the remainder,
of the day. About ten at night we reached the main inlet, and took
up our abode until the next morning, at a point oh the continental Saturday 10.
fhorei
The, weatKer being again fair, and pleafant, we. early directed our way
along the continental fhore, which was nearly ftraight and compaft, and
trending about n . g w . About our time of breakfaft, we arrived at the
fouth point of another of thofe arms, about half a mile wide, which had
hitherto,employed the major part of our time to fo little purpofe.
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