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Title: A voyage round the world; 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
Year: 1789 (1780s)
Authors: Portlock, Nathaniel, 1748?-1817. cn
Subjects: King George (Ship) Queen Charlotte (Ship) Voyages around the world
Publisher: London, Printed for J. Stockdale, and G. Goulding
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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.Mr/- 1,1 if fl / l)lllijkit JhHiipt^U h/,j)>iiiMtii!i A: (i (f^iilViii/. Wednef. i6. NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. 227 over a muddy bottom, and moored the fliip head and ftern. ^ ^^^^^ ^• When moored, we had the Sound open to the South Weft » between two points of land, about half a point of the Maycompafs: tlirough which fpacc we could fee any thing thatpaffed in or out of the Sound by Cape Ilinchinbrooke paf-fage. The land all around us had a dreary appearance,being covered with fnow five or fix feet deep, quite downto high water mark; fo that the only fpace where wecould walk was on the beach after the tide had fallen. Atthe head of the harbour were two fine frefli-water rivulets,likely to produce plenty of falmon at a proper feafon. Afew of the natives came along-fide with fome good fea-otterfkins, and a fmall quantity of fifh, for which we wereobliged to pay extravagantly. In the morning cf the 18th I went in the whale-boat Friday 18.to examine an arm trending to the Eafiwa

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