lo Menzies' Journal. 



Oregon Coast. 



1792. 

 April 24th. 



April 25th. 



Orford, Cape. 

 Named by 

 Vancouver In 

 honour of Lord 

 George Orford. 

 Menzies' 

 conjecture has 

 been confirmed, 

 but the name 

 Is still 



represented by 

 Port Orford. 



Gregory, Cape 

 of Cook, 1778. 

 Replaced by 

 Cape Arago in 

 American maps 

 of 1855. 



ing the time they were on board their attention was so much 

 engagd on other objects that all my endeavours provd fruit- 

 less in collecting any part of their language which appeard 

 to us to be a very clattering / jargon. 



As the weather was moderate & the wind favorable 

 from the Southward we stood in on the morning of the 

 24th towards the hammoc point which formd our northern 

 extreme on the preceeding noon, & as we approachd it we 

 discoverd some breakers & a cluster of naked rocks about 

 two or three miles off it, one of which is of a conical form 

 & renders this point so remarkable that it can easily be dis- 

 tinguishd in whatever direction it is made. The South side 

 of the Point is made up of steep cliffs of light brown rocks 

 & though the Coast appeard broken with some apparent little 

 opening to the Southward of it yet that part of the shore 

 for a considerable way appeard strewd over with breakers 

 & detachd rocks that a near approach would require the 

 utmost caution. 



Our Latitude at noon was 43° 6' North when the 

 Hammoc Point we past in the Morning bore S 11° E five 

 leagues which places it in Latitude 42° 51' North its Longi- 

 tude being 235° 41 East & as it is the most conspicuous 

 point on this part of the Coast I think there can be no 

 doubt of its being Cape Blanco of the Spaniards, though 

 Capt Vancouver has namd it Cape Orford, nor can the 

 difference between our settlement of it & Cap* Cook's have 

 any weight in this consideration as that able Navigator 

 by his own account settled it by a long estimated distance 

 which will always be allowd to be less or more liable to 

 fallacy, besides as the land hereabouts is low we are pretty 

 certain that he was too far oft' to see the extremity of the 

 point & this is very evident from our not finding any par- 

 ticular point on this part of the Coast within four leagues 

 of the situation he assigns to Cape Blanco. 



/ We continued our progress to the Northward with a 

 favorable breeze & about three in the afternoon passed Cape 

 Gregory in Latitude 43° 23' North & Longitude 235° 48' 

 East, it is a projecting steep bluff of a moderate height facd 

 with light brown cliffs on the South Side & though we differ 

 here also a little from Cap* Cook, this must be attributed to 

 the distance he was from the Cape & the boisterous weather 

 he met with in making this part of the Coast so early. 



