Halibut do not enter fresh water but limit their inshore breeding in brackish tidal water only. The settlement developed along a hillside on the West Side of the lake, because subsequent events specify this. The hill was relatively high and steep, for subsequent events and a vividly described vista strongly infers it. This last also confirms an east facing view. The area was forested - apparently heavily so.
Aborigines dwelt at some little distance inland from the site.
There were at least two sizeable rocky outcrops somewhere nearby. This latter was stipulated as located to the north of the settlement and near the river and was at some reasonable distance - not over two or three miles at most. The situation is rare as a composite, especially the hop-like lake and cliffs near a river. The site discovered fulfills all 18 requirements, seems to satisfy a powerful statistical argument which, in turn, is what attracted the interest of the distinguished persons listed above.