No. 64.
[undated]
Extract of Voyage of Captain Vancouver.
Soundings in some places only could be gained close to the shore; and in the middle no bottom had anywhere been found with 100 fathoms of line, although the shores were in general low, and not half a league asunder.—(Vol. 1, p. 240.)No soundings appear on Vancouver’s map where the water is of great depth.
As we stood to the westward, our depth soon increased to fifteen fathoms, after which we gained no bottom until we reached the western shore of the gulf.—(Vol. 1, p. 299.)