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232 hore about 2 or 3 leagues to the from the entrance of port Dicovery, we rounded a low projefling point, and though the fog prevented our eeing about us, yet there was no doubt of our having entered ome other harbour or arm in the inlet that took a outhwardly direction. Here I propoed to wait until the weather hould be more favorable, and in the mean time to haul the eine which was done, along the beach to the outhward, with little succes.

Proecuting our labours as fihemen along the beach, we were led near a point imilar to that we had paed, and ditant from it about two miles; here the fog intirely dipering afforded an opportunity of acertaining its latitude to be 48° 7′ 30″, its longitude 237° 31′½. A very pacious inlet now preented itelf, whoe point, in a line with its , being the point from which we had lat departed, bore by compas 25 and femed about a league aunder: mount Baker bore  26 ; a teep bluff point oppoite to us, appearing to form the wet point of another arm of this inlet, 87  about 4 miles ditant; the nearet eatern hore 50  about 2 miles; and a very remarkable high round mountain, covered with now, apparently at the outhern extremity of the ditant range of nowy mountains before noticed, bore 45 : the hores of this inlet, like thoe in port Dicovery, hoot out into everal low, andy, projecting points, the outhernmot of which bore 9 ditant about 2 leagues, where this branch of the inlet eemed to terminate, or take ome other direction. Here we dined, and having taken the neceary angles, I directed Mr. Puget to found the mid-channel, and Mr. Johntone to examine the larboard or eatern hore, which I continued my reearches on the continental hore, appointing the outhernmot low point for our next rendezvous. As we advanced, the country eemed gradually to improve in beauty. The cleared pots were more numerous and of larger extent; and the remote lofty mountains covered with now, reflected greater lutr on the fertile productions of the les elevated country. On arriving near our place of rendezvous an opening was een, which gave to the whole of the eatern hore under the examination of Mr. Johntone, the appearance of being an iland. For this we teered, but found it cloed by a low andy neck of ,