1777- on mean time, at the rate of z",a i ? per day. From this rate- February. ,
l .— —• the longitude will be computed, till fome other opportunity
offers to afcertain her rate anew. The aftronomical clock,
with the fame length of pendulum as at Greenwich, was
found-to be lofing on fidereal time 40",239 per day.
It will not be amifs to mention, that the longitude, by lunar
obfervations, as above, differs only 6' 45" from what
Mr. Wales made it during my laft Voyage; his being fa
much more to the Weft, or 174° 18' 30".
The latitude of Ship Cove is 41° 6' q", as found by Ms-
Wales.
C H A P . v u r .
M r . Anderfons Remarks on the Country near £$ueen
Charlottes Sound.— The S oil.— Climate.— Weather.—
W inds.— Trees.— P la nts.— B irds.— F ijh .— Other A n imals.—
O f the Inhabitants.— Defcription o f their P er -
fons.— Their D refs.— Ornaments.— Habitations.— Boats.
Food and Cookery.— A r ts.— Weapons. — Cruelty to
Prifoners,— Various Cujloms,— Specimen o f their L a n guage.
THE land every where about Queen Charlotte’s Sound ,777.
is uncommonly mountainous, riling immediately from .
the fea into large hills with blunted tops. At confiderable
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 thefé mountains, at lead toward the ihore,
aré conftituted of a brittle, yellowilh fand-ftone, which acquires
a bluiCh call, where the fea -walhes it. It runs, at
fome places, in horizontal, and, at other places, in oblique
Jrata -,, being frequently divided, at fmall diftances, h y thin
V o l. I. .. .. U -veins
Vt.