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Hydrographic Notes taken by
W.H. Dall on the voyage from Victoria to
Sitka by the inland passage.

[[line]] Friday, June 4th 1880 [[line]]
At 4.15 A.M. reached Seymour Narrows. The extreme end of Race Pt. is rocky flattish and bare of trees. Between the eastern end of Maude Id. and the adjacent shore is an appearance of a passage known as False Passage. 
In the narrows the ridge on the Vancouver side seemed decidedly the higher; both were rather sparsely wooded, the rocks showing through in several places.
There are two inlets northward from Deepwater Bay on Valdes Island not examined to their terminations but which are reported to extend much further than indicated by Br. Adm. Ch. 530. Granite Point between them is rather low, wooded on top, bare at the end; the highest side is toward the northern inlet.
The point opposite Chatham Pt. has a nearly bare steep rocky face not much higher than Chatham Pt. The north shore hereabouts is largely rocky for some little way back.
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Capt. Wm. E. George says that the tides in Johnstone Strait are very irregular. The H. B. Co's officers agree with him in saying that the data on the Br. Adm. charts are not sufficient to compute the tides by.
Mt Eldon near Pender Id. is a peculiar wooded squaretopped hill abrupt to the NW. and quite isolated. The Vancouver shore is hereabouts the steeper, higher and most densely wooded.
The bluff ENE. of Knox Bay is nearly bald on its SE. slope.
On the line from Thurlow Island at Pt. [[strikethrough]] Eldon [[/strikethrough]] Eden and Camp Pt. Peak, close to the ^ [[insertion]] Vancouver [[/insertion]] shore is a rock close in, covered at h.w., not on Br. Adm. Ch. 581. It was discovered by Capt. Carroll on the last voyage of the Str. California to Sitka.
All the timber on Blinkhorn Island has been prostrated by a windfall or some similar cause.
At Alert Bay is a flourishing trading station and wood wharf. The Indians have mostly moved over from Cheslakee to this place.
There is a NE. current in Hecate Strait

Transcription Notes:
It is a fancy capital H, not He, so Hydrographic, not Heydrographic. It is Sitka, not Litka. Place names checked.