the party uſing their utmoſt endavours to get through the narrows by the ſsame friendly aſſiſtance of the natives he had before experienced; which being now no longer required, theſe good people returned to their habitations, apparently well ſatiſfied with the kind offices they had rendered, and the acknowledgments they had received. The boats now ſought ſhelter from the inclemency of the weather in a ſmall cove on the ſouth ſide of thw arm they had quitted, where the ſame cauſe operated to detain them until the morning of the 2d of July, when the time for which they were ſupplied with proviſions being nearly expired, it was deemed moſt expedient to return to the ſhips.
By theſe two expeditions the boundary of the continental ſhore was completely aſcertained to the above narrow paſvage; and the ſtongeſt preſumption induced that the whole of the coaſt on our weſtern ſide, ſouthward of that paſſage was compoſed of innumerable iſlands.
The weather being tolerably fair, Mr. Johnſtone and Mr. Swaine were the next day again diſpatched with a week's proviſions, to examine the continental ſhore through the narrow paſſage from whence they had returned; by the means of which, and the ſurvey then proſecuting under Lieutenant Pugce and Mr. Whidbey, who were to commence their inquiries in an oppoſite point, the whole extent of the gulph would be finally determined; or, in the event of the Indian's information being correct, its further navigable communication to the northward would be diſcovered.
By what I had ſeen of the gulph on the evening we entered this found, though its weſtern extremity was certainly bonded, yet the appearance of the land in that direction favored the opinion of its being compoſed of iſlands, though the whole might be united by low land not perceptible at ſo great a diſtance.
On friday afternoon, the officers in the launch and cutter returned, from whom I underſtood, that they had found the weſtern ſide of the gulph of Georgia, from that part oppoſite to point Marſhall, to be compa{{ls}ct, riſing in a gentle aſcent from the ſea ſhore to the inland mountains, (ſome of which were covered with ſnow) wearing a pleaſant and fertile appearance; along this ſhore they continued their route and en-tered
