The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-02-09
THE PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
FrE - - LLs1
INTERVENING TO WHiLEHES.
Great Lagoon IN Lower California.

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sas c0z plstsiy SLED With sand. and would. in an
Eo-x, haze bssn entirely hidden from sight. {
Jg eourse, 10 tree or heritage q any kind exists
here, nor ear anything De cultivated. Change IN
he h@cs Of the country are zDingon ccnstsDtly. Lgs {
# rdr1Dd. three or hgr feet Il diameter, are fund
islf covered ~ with s@nt, and sonsilross ulls. from
he water Ins-s are e7I5snt!y q Oregon growth,
I'D have either teen thrown into their present. pei
iDn by The sgrf, II soms tremendous storm, Or b%iEg
loez,s4 On the leach, the sands have encrOachs1
~ the water, leaving the bzs far inland in the pro-
,es q tine. Their prss>nce il accounted for Dy
currents setLIDz down from the nJrthSard- Frssh
later AID VOID are equally scarce, and should an
9nhappy ~rayf4rer chance 70 get lost n these track
e-s rIIds, starvation would be inevitable. Several
nstancss q this kind are re0yGnted-
The Isgoon. after entering il from the bar, expands
- ones into a vast sheet cf water. "a every direction
sOthiag j. % Es seen On the share but scrub bushes
md s;un,ed zrass To the soUth-ard, a email lagoon,
.boat eigh; miise IL extent, makes out Il the larger
me. and = nasig2be- IL - known az Fort Lagoon,
5at ~hAls. .eidom 80 up there The lagoon contains
evsrAI islands. covered with stun;si zrzs= ard seed=,
y IN the exception q two, when are suppO=sd 20 en-
ain gganO, although the fact Il not yet vel s=.ab-
she'd The distance from the bar % the western
,rjsr Is bet-eeu thirty and forty mile, but count
ng the zorthern lazoons already described. and
<hich are believed 70 have been. al one time, a por-
ion q the main one. this BODY Of water -0u-i be up
yards o. ssSsnty mils= IA extent The breadth = be-
~een twenty and thirty miles In every part, eE-
closs % the ore. may bs found from tN9 u hye
atEoms- God anchorage = fund sysry"EeTe-
WHALE yIsHEEfEs ~ THE LAGOON.
p 80, ~ the I.-rc- ru- rHaIa-- Ufl 4
'enemb~r. from the description given ~ u several
weeks siucs, ar. from the sane source whence Ss o.
air the pressutds;alls- We shall. therefore. refer par
iculariy 20 the grea; feature Of the place, which y
he whale fisheries CONDUCTED here, AMI which SII
y CONDUCTED with great Industry during the coming