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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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south of that point, believing, though unableto prove it, that he was at the mouth of a great gulflike that of California, extending north probably to57° He does not state definitely his opinion that thegulf communicated with the Dixon entrance, butimplied that it did so, and with other entrancesfarther north—indeed, that the whole coast seenwas that of a great archipelago. The names applied 11 See Hint. CaL, i. chap, xxi., for his visit to California; also Hist. Alaska,this series. 11 La Pirouse, Voyage. . . antour dn mondc Paris, 1798; 8vo, 4 vols, and folioatlas. That part of the narrative pertaining to the coast between 55 and 42^IS in torn. ii. 254-78. In torn. i. 345-64 is a translated extract from MaurellesJournal of the Spanish voyage of 1770. In the atlas, maps 3, 15, 1G, 17, 29,and 31 show all or part of the territory, on different scales. There are severaleditions both of the French original and of an English translation. L. A.Milet-Mnreau was the editor of the original.
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La Perouses Map, 1736. ME ARES, TIPPING, AXD STRAXGE. 177 are shown on the map which I copy, and which isremarkably complete, if we consider the limited ma-terial on which it rested. Though far superior toany map made before 1786, its value was of coursemuch impaired by the fact that it was not publisheduntil 1798. La Perouses names were superseded byothers which later English navigators applied beforethe French narrative was known to the world. Thevoyage was continued down past Nootka and thesouthern coast, with occasional glimpses of the coastas the fog lifted; the latitude of several points wasfixed more accurately than ever before, the Englishand Spanish names being retained, and that of NeckerIsland being applied to the rocks off Cape Blanco;13the line of 42° was passed on September 6th, andon the 14th they anchored at Monterey. In 1786 at least three distinct fur-trading expedi-tions were despatched to the American coasts; oneof them, consisting of the Nootka and Sea Otter, und

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