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Title: Bancroft's Works History of the Northwest Coast vol 1
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Bancroft, Hubert Howe
Subjects: history
Publisher: San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft and Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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th-eastern extension of the inland sea was discovered, fully explored, and named, as shown by the annexed copy of Vancouvers map.78 The record of adventures and observations, though full of interest n New Dungeness, a sandy point resembling Dungeness in the English Channel (Quimpers Point Santa Cruz), and Mount Baker in the far distance, discovered by Lieutenant Baker, were the only new names applied west of Port Discovery; and Lou Angeles was the only Spanish name put later on Vancouvers map of the southern shore. 78 The map also shows, besides Vancouvers southern discoveries of Ad-v)irnlt:i I,,/<■/, //oo/ CuhiI, and Puget Sound, the northern parts explored before by Elisa and Quimper. See map already given. Mount Rainier, beyond the limits of my copy, was so named for Rear-admiral Rainier of the British navy. Other names used in Vancouvers text, but not appearing on the map,are Marrow-stone Point, Oak Cove, Foulweathtr JJluj/, Hazel Point, Restoration Point, and Cypress Island.
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Vancouvers Map, 1792. THE ENGLISH NAVIGATORS. 277 in its details, cannot of course be reproduced here,even en resume. On the kings birthday, the 4th of June, at Possession Sound, formal possession was taken in the name of his Britannic majesty of all the countries round about these inland waters, including the outer coast down to 39° 20; and to the inland coasts and islands above 45° was given, in honor of the king, the name of New Georgia. This act of possession, like previous acts of similar nature by the Spaniards at half a dozen points within the strait, of course had no possible force under the Nootka convention;but the men got an extra allowance of grog, and no harm was done. Next the English navigators penetrated the northern channels; but what they found in the gulf of Georgia, or Canal del Rosario, has already been clearly enough laid before the reader in the charts of Elisa and Galiano.79 From June 22d to July 12th the Englishmen were in company with the Spanish explorers,as note

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