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Heceta, a Spanish navigator, examined the coast between 

 latitude 47° and 48° for the strait reported by Fuca, but could 

 not find it. Three years later, Cook made a similar vain 

 search. In 1787, Berkeley, an Englishman, saw the strait, and 

 reported it to his countryman Meares, who entered it the next 

 year and called it after Fuca, whose story had then fallen into 

 great discredit. Gray's harbor was discovered by Captain 

 Gray, an American, in 1791, and the next year he entered the 

 Columbia River, and named it after his ship. In this year also 

 V"ancouver visited the coast of Washington, and gave the first 

 clear and accurate account of the Straits of Fuca and Puget 

 Sound. The first w^hite men who saw the interior of the Territory 

 were Lewis and Clark, sent out on an exploring expedition dur- 

 ing: the administration of President Jefferson. A few rovinsj 

 white hunters and trappers were found along the shores of the 

 Columbia about 1820, but the first settlements were made about 

 1828, by the Hudson's Bay Company, which established posts 

 at Vancouver, Okinagan, and Colville. In 1841 the Puget 

 Sound Agricultural Comj^any (composed of members of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company, which was restricted by its license to 

 trading) took possession of two farms, one between the Nis- 

 qually and Puyallup Rivers, and another at the bend of the 

 Cowlitz River, and began to grow grain and breed cattle, 

 mainly for the purpose of supplying the fur company. Before 

 the establishment of these farms, some French Canadians set- 

 tled on French Prairie, and engaged in farming. The first 

 American settlers made their appearance in 1845, and since 

 then there has been a slow but regular increase of population. 

 Many of the remarks about the history of Oregon will also 

 apply to this Territory, which was a part of Oregon until 

 March, 1853, when it was organized as a separate Territory, 

 its southern boundary being then the Columbia River and 

 latitude 46°. When Oregon was admitted as a State, February 

 14, 1859, one-third of its area at the east was cut ofi" and 

 attached to Washington Territory. In 1854 a smwey was 

 made to find a route for a northern Pacific railroad, to termi- 



