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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Arranged in Systematic Order (v. 16)
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels Arranged in Systematic Order - v. 16 Author:Robert Kerr Subtitle: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Volume: v. 16 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Original Publisher: W. Blackwood Subjects: Voyages and travels Notes: This is a black and whit... more »e OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Section If. The Name of the Sound, and Directions for Sailing into trV- Account of the adjacent Country. -- Weather. -- Climate.-- Trees. -- Other Vegetable Productions. -- Quadrupeds, whose Skins were brought for Sale. -- Sea Animals. -- Description of a Sea Otter. -- Birds. -- Water Fowl- Fhh. -- Shell-fish, tfc. -- Reptiles. -- Insects. -- Stones, Sfc. -- Persons of the Inha- bitants. -- Their Colour. -- Common Dress and Ornaments, Occasional Dresses, and monstrous Decorations of wooden Masks. -- Their general Dispositions. -- Songs. -- Musical Instruments. -- Their Eagerness to possess Iron and other Metals. On my arrival in this inlet, I had honoured it with the name of King George's Sound ; but I afterward found, that it is called Nootka by the natives. The entrance is situated in the east corner of Hope Bay, in the latitude of 49 33'N., and in the longitude of 233 12 E. The east coast of that bay, all the way from Breaker's Point to the entrance of the Sound, is covered by a chain of sunken rocks, that seemed to extend some distance from the shore; and, near the Sound, are some islands and rocks above water. We enter this Sound between two rocky points, that lie E. S. E., and W. N. W. from each other, distant between three and four miles. Within these points the Sound widens considerably, and extends in, to the northward, four leagues at least, exclusive o...« less