interruptions, and Hivorcd by a s.i . breeze, they advanced about 12
leagues from point Hugh ; Avherc ihev (lopped for the night, oppofile
to a high round ifland, lying in tl:e n»iddle of iho channel.
From this (lation, fituaied in latitude jS" 1', longitude 226" [], in the morning of the 8th, they departed with calm rainv weather, and purfued their refearehes along the s'e(lern fliore, which now took a direction N. 10 w',, eight miles, to a point named by me I*oin r ARnr.N, where tins branch divided into three arms; that which appeared to be a conti nualion of the arm they had been navigating took a norih-eaflerly direc- tion; the fecond, lying about a league to the n. v., not more than half a mile wide, took a north-wellerlv direcVion, and, apparently, made the land on its fouih-wcll llde an ifland. .Vboiu 3 leagues up this arm is a fmall iflet nearly in mid-channel. This afforded another inftanee of the partial exillcnce of the ice, which here intirely blocked up this arm, whilfl the others were free from any fuch inconyenience. The thirl and wideft arm took a general courfe N.81 w'., and is about a league in width ; this agreeably to our ufual practice was fird purfued along the fouthern fliore about 5 leagues to point Young, forming the eaft point o(
- i cove, with an ifland and rock in its entrance, and another at the bot-
tom of the cove. At this ])oint the width of the arm decrcafed to about half a league, and from it the fouthern fliore flretclied n. 42 ^^^ At the difhince of about feven miles the cafl^ point of another fmall cove was reached, with an iflet lying near it. At the back of this iflet was an Indian village, and another was feen on an oppoflte point lying north, about a league and a half from this cove, on the land forming the north fide of the arm, xvVr feemed to be the north-weft point of the land be- fore mentioned, appearing to bean ifland.
As Mr. Whidbcy advanced from this cove, the fliore ftill continuing the fame line of direflion, he recogni/cd the fpot, from whence in his excur- lion from Crofs found on the night of the 18th of July he had retired, in confequencc of the hoflile behaviour of the natives, and he now became I'atisfied that he had been millaken in fuppofing at that time the branch to be clofed; as it was now evident that it communicated with that which the parly had thus navigated, making the intermediate land, which had N n 2 hitherto
