From a mezzotint by C. Turner after the painting by Matthew Brown. Photograph from the collection of Augustin Rischgitz, London.

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moderate height, and though rocky, well covered with trees of a large growth, principally of the pine tribe. On the northern side, the rugged snowy barrier, whose base we had now nearly approached, rose very abruptly, and was only

Burrard was born on September 16, 1765, and in 1778 he entered the navy on the Roebuck under Sir Andrew Snape Hamond. In this ship he was present at the reduction of Charlestown in April, 1780. Moved to the Chatham under Captain Douglas, he took part in the capture of the French frigate Magicienne, off Boston, on September 2, 1781. He returned to England in 1783 as acting-lieutenant of the Perseverance. After service in the Hector under Sir John Hamilton, he went to the West Indies in the Europa and was officially thanked for saving five men from a wreck during a hurricane.

On September 29, 1787, he was promoted to be lieutenant of the Expedition. In 1790 he was in the Southampton with Keats and later in the Victory, Lord Hood's flagship. On November 3, 1790, he was promoted to be commander of the Orestes.

On April 12, 1791, his uncle, Sir Harry Burrard, died and he then succeeded to the baronetcy. On February 1, 1793, he was advanced to post rank and accompanied Lord Hood to the Mediterranean, where he saw active service, returning to England at the end of 1794.

Shortly after his marriage Neale was appointed to the command of the San Fiorenzo of forty-two guns, stationed at Weymouth, in attendance on the king. In company with the Nymphe, the San Fiorenzo, on March 9, 1797, captured the French frigates Resistance and Constance off Brest. Neale and his crew won honors a little later during the mutiny at the Nore. This crew refused to join the mutiny, and the ship was ordered to anchor under the stern of the Sandwich. In a few days she made her escape, running past a fierce fire from the mutinied ships. This escape was fatal to the mutiny. On June 7 a meeting at the Royal Exchange of London merchants and shipowners thanked Neale, his officers and seamen, for their faithfulness and spirit.

Neale continued in the same ship and, on April 9, 1779, in company with the Amelia of thirty-eight guns, was off Lorient where three large French frigates were lying in the outer road, ready for sea. The Amelia was partly dismasted by a sudden squall off the land, seeing which the French frigates slipped their cables and dashed for the lone San Fiorenzo. The Amelia soon patched up her troubles and rejoined her mate. The two ships then compelled the three frigates to retire to Lorient after severe losses.

Appointed to the Centaur of seventy-four guns in 1801, Neale was soon after moved into the royal yacht. In May and June, 1804, he was one of the Lords of the Admiralty, but in July returned to the royal yacht. In 1805, in the London of ninety-eight guns, he was with a small squadron under Sir

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protected from the wash of the sea by a very narrow border of low land. By seven o'clock we had reached the N. W. point of the channel, which forms also the south point of the main branch of the sound: this also, after another particular friend, I called POINT ATKINSON, situated north from point Grey, about a league distant. Here the opposite point of the entrance into the sound bore by compass west, at the

John Borlase Warren, and had a remarkable fight on March 13, 1806, with the French ships Marengo and Belle Poule, both of which were captured. The Marengo of seventy-four guns, in command of Admiral Linois, struck to the London after a running fight of four hours. In 1808 Neale was captain of the fleet under Lord Gambier during the abortive attack on the French ships on Basque Roads. On July 31, 1810, he was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral and commanded a squadron on the coast of France from 1811 to 1814. On June 4, 1814, he became a vice-admiral.

On January 2, 1815, he was nominated a Knight Commander of the Bath, and on September 14, 1822, he received the Grand Cross of the same order. From 1823 to 1826 he was commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, which position, according to a rule then in force, carried with it a nomination for the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George.

In 1824 he compelled the Dey of Algiers to obey the terms of the treaty of 1816. Neale became an admiral on July 22, 1830, and on the death of Sir Thomas Foley in January, 1833, he was offered command at Portsmouth on condition of his resigning his seat in Parliament. Neale, pointing out that such a condition was unprecedented and insulting, declined the command. The affair was probed in the Commons, but the Admiralty made their point stick.

Neale died at Brighton on February 15, 1840. Leaving no issue, his baronetcy fell to his brother, Rev. George Burrard, rector of Yarmouth. Neale was Lord of the Manor in the town of Lymington, which he had represented in Parliament for forty years. On Mount Pleasant, opposite this town, a handsome obelisk has been erected to the memory of Neale. The fine portrait used in this work was engraved in mezzotint by C. Turner from a painting by Matthew Brown.

Point Atkinson. There was one member of the expedition who bore this name. He was Edmund Atkinson, master's mate of the Chatham. When mustered in he gave his age at twenty-two years and his birthplace as Carlisle. There is no likelihood that Vancouver had reference to him when he named this point "after another particular friend." Point Atkinson, on the northern entrance to Burrard Inlet, has a lighthouse and is altogether a prominent feature. It is a pity that the man thus honored cannot be identified. There were many Atkinsons contemporaries of Vancouver in Great Britain, but thus far no clew to the right one has been discovered.

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distance of about three miles; and nearly in the center between these two points, is a low rocky island producing some trees, to which the name of PASSAGE ISLAND was given. We passed in an uninterrupted channel to the east of it, with the appearance of an equally good one on the other side.

Quitting point Atkinson, and proceeding up the sound, we passed on the western shore some detached rocks, with some sunken ones amongst them, that extend about two miles, but are not so far from the shore as to impede the navigation of the sound; up which we made a rapid progress, by the assistance of a fresh southerly gale, attended with dark gloomy weather, that greatly added to the dreary prospect of the surrounding country. The low fertile shores we had been accustomed to see, though lately with some interruption, here no longer existed; their place was now occupied by the base of the stupendous snowy barrier, thinly wooded, and rising from the sea abruptly to the clouds; from whose frigid summit, the dissolving snow in foaming torrents rushed down the sides and chasms of its rugged surface, exhibiting altogether a sublime, though gloomy spectacle, which animated nature seemed to have deserted. Not a bird, nor living creature was to be seen, and the roaring of the falling cataracts in every direction precluded their being heard, had any been in our neighborhood.

Towards noon I considered that we had advanced some miles within the western boundary of the snowy barrier, as some of its rugged lofty mountains were now behind, and to the southward of us. This filled my mind with the pleasing hopes of finding our way to its eastern side. The sun shining at this time for a few minutes afforded an opportunity of ascertaining the latitude of the east point of an island which, from the shape of the mountain that composes it, obtained the name of ANVIL ISLAND, to be 49° 30', its longitude 237° 3'. We passed an island the forenoon of Friday the 15th, lying on the eastern shore, opposite to an opening on the western, which evidently led into the gulf nearly in a S. W. direction, through a numerous assemblage