Excerpt from Origin of Washington Geographic Names Four years later a climax was reached in the geographical history, when, in 1792, Captain Robert Gray, under the American flag, discovered and named the Columbia River and Grays Harbor, and Captain George Vancouver, under the British flag, discovered and named Puget Sound and many of the surrounding geographical features. Both these explorers respected the names given by the Spaniards so far as they were known, and the names given by Captains Cook and Meares. ...
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Excerpt from Origin of Washington Geographic Names Four years later a climax was reached in the geographical history, when, in 1792, Captain Robert Gray, under the American flag, discovered and named the Columbia River and Grays Harbor, and Captain George Vancouver, under the British flag, discovered and named Puget Sound and many of the surrounding geographical features. Both these explorers respected the names given by the Spaniards so far as they were known, and the names given by Captains Cook and Meares. Since that culminating year of ex ploration, the geographic names have increased rapidly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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