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beautiful prospects, of hill & dales, varied with woods & extended pastures, mounting up their sides, - presenting to the Eye delightful, rural, Landscapes & to the mind the Idea of a mountainous country in a high state of Cultivation which I could not pass without often regrating - my not being able to land & examine it more particularly - we understand at present the Spaniards have no settlement to the Northward, of Port St. Francisco excepting Nootka & one lately established at the Enterance of De Fuca Straits. - It may appear curious that on the day we made the Straits of Juan De Fuca we should fall in, with the very same Capt Gray, which in Mears's Voyage, is said, to perform that wonderful interior navigation in the Sloop Washington; - I accompanied one of the Officers on board his Vessel, the Columbia, and he positively averred to us, that he was never above 50-miles up the Straits & came back the same way he entered. - & Mr Duffin who is in this port at present, waiting to carry our despatches