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Lieutenant Whidby gave the names also to the two entrance capes. He called the northern 
Point Brown, in honor of Captain, afterwards Admiral Brown. 
This point has a hook shape, like Cape Disappointment, and affords the boldest shore 
found in Gray’s harbor and the best anchorage. 
To the southern cape Whidby gave the name Point Hanson, in compliment to Lieutenant 
Hanson, who commanded the Dedalus when she came out from England. On our modern 
American charts this name, probably by mistake, has been changed to Point Harrison. This 
point is much lower than Point Brown. | 
Whidby’s survey of the harbor, the first ever made of it, is given in Vancouver's Atlas. 
On this survey the bay is represented as everywhere surrounded and closed by wooded hills; 
nothing of the river’s entering it is indicated. 
The agents and traders of the Hudson Bay Company, who often travel through this region 
from Fort Vancouver to Puget Sound, discovered to the east of Gray’s harbor an Indian tribe, 
the Chehalis, and a river called after them the river of the Chehalis. 
Commodore Wilkes, in 1841, sent out from Puget Sound Lieutenant Eld to survey this 
river, and also Gray’s harbor, which he did. He called the northern part of the bay, which is 
particularly dotted with shoals without any channels, Useless Bay.* 
POINT GRENVILLE, 47° 18’ NORTH LATITUDE, 1240 13° WEST LONGITUDE. 
From Gray’s harbor the coast begins to trend perceptibly towards the west, but from Point 
Brown, for about seventy-five miles, it still presents a low, uniform, unbroken appearance. 
From Point Grenville it is broken and more elevated, and the whole aspect of the coast, from 
here to Cape Flattery, changes. Several small rocks lie off this point, one of which is perforated. 
The extremity of Point Grenville forms, as it were, a bastion of rocky bluffs, and behind this 
bastion a single high peak is seen. We can consider Point Grenville as the northern limit of 
the extensive country on both sides of the Columbia river, embracing about eighty nautical 
miles. 
From all these circumstances, Point Grenville attracts the attention of those who come from 
the south, and Heceta, as well as Vancouver, when they saw it, sailed at once to it, EVE 
Shoalwater bay and Gray's harbor to their right unexplored. Несеіа, 1775, called this point 
Punta de los Martires, (the Point of the Martyrs,) from the circumstance that some of the men | 
were here killed by the Indians. ji 
Vancouver named it, on the 28th of April, 1792, Point Grenville, in honor of Ре: a eg 
On the Spanish charts of the Sutil and Mexicana it is called Punta de la PERI which 
may be translated the Point of the Bastion, and which contains, no doubt, an allusion to the 
shape of the bluffs at the extremity of the point. | 
Vancouver observes that a current appears to set upon this point, and thinks this to be the 
cause of several accidents which happened here in former times to English as well as Russian 
and Spanish vessels, and perhaps, also, of the remarkable occurrence of the wreck of a Japanese 
junk, which happened here in the year 1833. 
® See Eld’s Expedition, Wilkes, vol. 5, from page 124 to 134. 
{ Bastida is an engine for covering approaches. 
j} See Vancouver, vol. 1, page 211. 
