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Menzies' Journal. 



Oregon Coast. 



1792. 

 April 26tb. 



April 27th. 



C. Lookout of 

 Meares, 1788. 

 Voy., 168, and 

 illustration of. 



The Three 

 Brothers of 

 Meares. 



Off the 



Columbia River, 

 in Meares' 

 Deception Bay. 



Meares, Voy., 

 167. 



a bay skirted round with low land of no great depth & it 

 being dark we stood off again for the night & had Soundings 

 from 50 to 75 fathoms fine black sand. 



From Cape Perpetua in our run this day to the North- 

 ward the Mountains appeard high & rose with a steep ascent 

 from the water side coverd with trees to their very summits 

 — Some of the Valleys had a fertile appearance & in a fine 

 day would no doubt yield a more favorable prospect. 



/ In the morning of the 27th we stood in for the land 

 with the wind from the South West quarter which blew 

 very fresh & in frequent squalls with showers of rain & 

 some hail : Those who were on deck at this time saw also 

 a Water Spout. We bore up along shore a little to the 

 Northward of Cape look out which is in the Latitude of 

 44° 33' North & Longitude 236° 10' East. This point is 

 renderd conspicuous by three remarkable naked rocks laying 

 a little off it, one of which is piercd & answers pretty well 

 Mr Mears description of it, who named it. 



The land we saild along this forenoon was formd into 

 large Bays with white sandy beaches skirted with low flat 

 land extending inland into deep valleys with intervening 

 mountains forming projecting points on the shore & rising 

 inland to considerable height apparently more than any we 

 had yet seen on the Coast. 



About noon seeing some whitish water ahead indued 

 us to haul the wind to the North West off the land to 

 avoid the apparent danger of getting into shoal water. The 

 exterior edge of this water like the former we met with 

 made a defined line with the other & appeard muddy like 

 the over flowings of a considerable river. Our Latitude 

 was 46° 14' North & the northern extreme which made a 

 naked rocky point apparently separated from the land behind 

 it which was coverd with Trees bore North about 5 or 6 

 miles from us. I could see at this time from the Mast head 

 the appearance of a river or inlet going in on the South side 

 of this rocky point which I took to be what Mr Mears namd 

 / Cape Disap ointment, it is by us in Latitude 46° 19' N & 

 Longitude 236° 4' East. 



In the afternoon our distance from the land was too 

 great to have a distinct or satisfactory view of the shore 

 opposite to us which appeard to be defended by a long reef 

 of breakers & some shallow water. — Here the country again 



