longitude 230° 16'. This branch, generally preferving the width o f a
mile, decreafed -at the end of its north-wefterly courfe, by the projection
of two points, to about 50 fathoms. The point extending from the
weftern fhore is a remarkably fteep, rocky precipice, and at high-water
becomes an. ifland. This had formerly been appropriated to the refi-
dence of a very numerous tribe of Indians, whofe habitations were now
fallen into decay, but it ftill retained the appearance of having been one
o f the moft confiderable and populous villages that Mr. Johnftone had
yet feen. On their return its entrance was reached about noon; and
the latitude obferved there was 540 24', longitude 230° 10'.
As it was in this arm that Mr. Brown had found occafion to chaftize
the natives by .cannonading their village, our party was much fur-
prized that not a Angle inhabitant fhould have been feen, fince thofe
who had vilited them on the 24th at night; this induced a more minute
examination o f the Ihores, and in the morning of the 28th, their attention
was more particularly direfted to thofe of that bay in which as
they had underftood the affray had happened. At the head of it was
found a fmall projefting rock, on which were the remains of a few Indian
habitations that appeared to have been very recently deferted. The
holes where the {hot had made their way through the houfes, proved it
to be the identical place defcribed by Mr. Brown.
As they kept along the eaft or continental fhore, they arrived in the
main inlet by a narrow channel about half a mile long, and about two
miles to the eaftward o f the place where they had entered it, making the
intermediate land an ifland, a league long, and half a league broad.
Behind this ifland was a fmall arm extending to the fouth-eaft about 2
miles, and then to the north-eaft about twice that diftance. The following
day another fmall arm about three quarters of a mile wide was
entered in latitude 54° 45', longitude 229“ 5C-J' which, after ftretching
4 miles to the z. n . e . divided into two branches, one taking a courfe of
about a league, N. by e ., where it joined the main inlet, making the
weftern land an ifland lying about n . n . e . and s. s .w . five miles in
length, and half a league broad.; the other extending irregularly towards
the s. E., where, in latitude 54° 40%', longitude 230° 13', it terminated in
low marfhy land, like the generality of the others which we had explored.
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The furvey o f this arm occupied the party the whole o f the 29th,
and bn the. 30th they entered the only opening remaining unexamined.
Its s.w. point of entrance, off which lie fome rocky iflets, is fituated.in
latitude 5 4 °5 iT , longitude 229° 5 7'; this is about a mile in width, and
terminated at the diftance o f about fix miles from its entrance, in a direction
n . 50 e . .
Having thus accomplifhed the fervice they were fent to perform,
Mr. Johnftone returned with his party towards the fhips, where they
arrived about nine in the evening, after experiencing, during this ex-
curfion, nearly an uninterrupted feries o f fair and pleafant weather.
Nothing of any note having occurred during my abfence, I fhall conclude
this chapter by the infertion of the aftronomical and nautical ob-
fervations made at this place ; and, in confequence of our having been
fo fortunate as to be able to obtain thofe that were effential for cor-
refting our former furvey, and for our future regulation in that refpeft,
this branch obtained the name o f O b s e r v a t o r y I n l e t ; and the
cove, where the veffels were ftationed, that o f S a l m o n C o v e , from the
abundance o f that kind of fifh that were there taken.
A s t r o n o m i c a l a n d - N a u t i c a l O b s e r v a t i o n s .
Longitude of the obfervatory, by Kendall’s chronometer,
on the 24th o f july, according to the Reftoration-bay rate, 230° 53' 13"
Arnold’s No. 14, by the fame rate, - - 230 g 45
Ditto 176, ditto, - - - - 230 27 30
Ditto, 82, ditto, on board the Chatham, 230 10
Longitude of the obfervatory deduced fr<Dm lunar diftances,
gfets taken by Mr.Whidbey, on 27th july, 0 eaft o f <[ 229° 56' 37"
15 fets, by ditto, 28, ditto, 230 7 9
16 ditto, 29, ditto, 230 9 25
12 ditto, 3°. ditto, * 230 8 59
6 ditto, 31. ditto, 23° 4 47
12 ditto, 11th aug. O
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230 34 34
16 ditto, 12, ditto, 2.qo ,q6 16
12 ditto, *5> ditto, 230 26 49
.he mean of 98 lets, collectively taken, - 23°° 15' 3 2"
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