. A voyage round the world [microform] : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America, performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon : dedicated, by permission to Sir Joseph Banks, Voyages round the world; Botany; Botanique. NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. well in with the land all along the coaft, in order to examine every place where there was a probability of finding inhabitants. In the afternoon the breeze frertiened, and at fix o'clock we faw a fine en- trance, bearing Baft North Eaft, on which we mortened fail,
. A voyage round the world [microform] : but more particularly to the north-west coast of America, performed in 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, in the King George and Queen Charlotte, Captains Portlock and Dixon : dedicated, by permission to Sir Joseph Banks, Voyages round the world; Botany; Botanique. NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA. well in with the land all along the coaft, in order to examine every place where there was a probability of finding inhabitants. In the afternoon the breeze frertiened, and at fix o'clock we faw a fine en- trance, bearing Baft North Eaft, on which we mortened fail, and flood in for It. On our approaching neater in with the land, the channel a-head had the appearance of a river from the North ⢠but the tide fetting ftrongly out of it, and the wind fiiifting to the Northward, we ftood into a fine harbour, which now opened to the South Eaft. At the entrance we had foundings from fifty to fixty fathom water, over a rocky bottom ; but as we advanced far- ther m, the foundings lefTened to twenty-one fathom, with mud on which we came to an anchor, being compleatly land-locked, and within mufquet fliot of the fhore, both to the Southward and Northward. >W I' â M ^>' 'm Though this appeared a moft eligible fpot for the natives to take up their abode in, yet no people were to be feen. On this, a four pounder was fired in the evening, in order to excite the curiofity of the inhabitants, if there lliould be any within hearing. The morning of the 24th was very fine, but no Indians to be feen, on which the whale-boat was hoifted out, and Captain Dixon went in her to look for inhabitants, in the adjacent creeks and har- bours. A pafl-age up a corner of the bay, to the Eaftward of our ftation, was the place which firft engaged his attention: he re- turned from thence about twelve o'clock, but without fiiccefs. The creek run a-confiderable diftance in land,' and terminated at the foot of a mountain, from whence it received a copious fupply of f
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