2(i GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [bull.187. 



Coast Suhvey, 1867-1900. 



Geoo-rai)lii(' woi-k in Alaska ])y the Coast Survey be^an in the sum- 

 mer of ISCT. piior to the purchase of Alaska, made in that year, and 

 with more or less intei'ruption it has continued to the present. The 

 rt\suhs are set forth in th(> reports, maps, charts, and other publica- 

 tions of that organization. So far as practicable, in making this dic- 

 tionary names are accredited to the particular individual who applied 

 them. It has not l)een possible to do so in all cases, however, and 

 aceordino-ly somo of the names are simplj^ recorded as having been 

 applied oi- given by the Coast Survey. 



CoonLAN, 1884. 



Commander Joseph B. Coghlan, U. S. N., in command of the U. S. S. 

 A(/a/n,s, was stationed in southeastern Alaska in 1884 and with his offi- 

 cers made reconnaissance surveys at some of the places where the 

 need was especially great. His surveys were principally in the inte- 

 rior passages north and east from Sitka sound, through Peril strait to 

 Chatham strait, and in and about Barlow cove at the south end of 

 Lynn canal. 



For his results see Coast and Geodetic Survey charts 727 and 728, 

 published in 1885. 



COLNETT, 1789. 



James Colnett, an English fur trader, sailed under instr actions from 

 Captain Meares, from China, in command of the Princess Royal and 

 Argonaut, VL\ April and May, 1789, on a trading voyage to northwest 

 America. Colnett did not publish any account of his voyage, but 

 information concerning it is contained in the Appendix to Meares 

 (John) Voyages, etc. 4° London, 1790. 



U. S. S. Concord, 1894. 



The U. S. S. Concord^ in 1894, made surveys in the islands of the 

 Four Mountains, in the Aleutian chain. The results are shown on 

 LTnitod States Hydrographic Office chart No. 8, edition of Februarv 



1895. " ' 



Cook, 1778. 



Eight days after the American colonies had declared themselves 

 free and independent, Capt. James Cook, R. N., the great English 

 navigator, sailed from Plymouth, England (July 12, 1776), on his third 

 and last voyage of discovery. He had two ships, the Resolution and 

 Discovery. He commanded the ReHolution and Capt. Charles Clerke 

 the Disccwery. The ships proceeded to Teneritfe, Cape of Good Hope, 

 Kerguelen Land, Van Dieman's Land, New Zealand, Friendly isles, 

 Tahiti, Christmas island, Hawaiian islands, and to Nootka sound in 

 Vancouver island, where they arrived on March 30, 1778. Between 



