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SANDFOED FLEMING ON 



(8) Explorations on the North Pucijic coast. 



lu I'T^S, the illustrious Captain James Cook received iustructious, ou his last voyage, 

 to make an examiuation of the western coast of America in search of the desired passage to 

 Europe ; but he found no inlet such as was described by Juan de Fuca. Singularly enough, 

 howcA^er, Captain Barclay, after whom Barclay Sound in Yaucouver Island is named. 



Tig. l'.— Jeflrey's Jlap, 17(3». 



discovered, in 1'78*7, a strait about the latitude mentioned by Juau de Fuca, which strait 

 had escaped the observation of Captain Cook. This now well-known inlet then received, 

 and has since borne, the name of the Greek mariner who claimed to have discovered a 

 navigable passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic two hundred years earlier. In 1188, 

 the inlet of Juan de Fuca was explored by Captain DufEn, and again in 1*790 by Captain 



