The History of Oregon And California & the Other Territories of the Northwest Coast of North America
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These circumstances were considered by Broughton and Vancouver as authorizing them to assume that the true entrance of the river was at the last-mentioned point, and that the waters between it and the ocean constituted an inlet or sound.* From the extremity of this inlet, the party rowed eighty miles up the river, in a south-west course, to a bend, where, the current being so rapid as to prevent them from advancing without great labor, they abandoned the survey, and returned to their vessel. Th...e angle of land around which the river flowed, and where their progress was arrested, received the appellation of Point Vancouver ; the part of the inlet where the ship Columbia lay at anchor during her visit, was called Gray^s Bay ; and that immediately within Cape Disappointment was named BaJcer^s Bay, in compliment to the captain of the Jenny. On the 10th of November, the Chatham * " I shall conclude this account of the Columbia River by a few short remarks that Mr. Broughton made in the course of its survey, in his own words.
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