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Admiralty charts have also a Huerto de Mojos, but І know nothing concerning the history of 
the name. 
The most remarkable group or reef of rocks on this coast is to be found in 48° 11’ north 
latitude, and is called on the modern American charts the Flattery Rocks. From 48° north 
latitude to these rocks the coast trends directly north. These rocks form a series of irregularly 
shaped islets, more than twelve in number, and extending about one league from the shore. 
The three largest have a number of trees growing upon their tops and eastern slopes. which 
are not so rocky and abrupt as the western slopes towards the ocean. 
The Flattery rocks have from the south an appearance somewhat like Cape Flattery. Here, 
as well as at the cape, the continent projects in a rounded headland, and from both these 
headlands stretch out chains of little rocks and islands towards the west. 
On the 22d of March, 1778, Cook saw three rocks from a distance, and, flattered with the 
hope that he would find a harbor in their vicinity, he called them and the projecting headland 
Cape Flattery. He found, however, no harbor, nor did he discover the entrance to De Fuca 
strait, but stood off to the south and afterwards to the west and northwest. He determined, 
however, the latitude of Cape Flattery to be 48° 15’ west. 
Captain Berkely, 1787, Meares, June, 1788, and Duncan, August, 1788, discovered the 
entrance to De Fuca strait and the entrance cape to the south of it, where they found an Indian 
village established, called Classett, and an island called Tatooche. Meares on his chart, gave 
to this northwest cape of our territory the name Tatooche, and more to the south, where our 
capes lie, he has Cape Flattery.* 
When Vancouver arrived here, 1792, he passed the Flattery rocks, which he unmistakably 
describes at a mile distance, but he gave no name to them. He then sailed directly to the 
south entrance cape of De Fuca strait, where he looked out anxiously for the point which 
Captain Cook had distinguished by the name of Cape Flattery. He could not entirely satisfy 
himself about this point, but at last came to the conclusion that the point which Duncan called 
Cape Classett was identical with that called by Cook Cape Flattery.t 
In the autumn of the same year (on the 14th of October, 1793,) Vancouver was again ш this 
region, and again remarks that, having heard that the name Classett originated only in the 
name of an inferior chief, and was not a name of importance among the Indians, he resumed 
the appellation of Cape Flattery, which is supposed to be the original name given by Captain 
Cook to the south entrance cape of De Fuca strait; but, at the same time, he gave to the rocks 
above described the name Flattery Rocks. On the American charts the names of Vancouver 
have been adopted; but the English admiralty, who, with a great degree of probability, think 
that Vancouver was not exact in his views, and that Cook saw only the Flattery Rocks and 
nothing of the entrance of De Fuca strait, adopt on the admiralty charts Cook’s old паше of 
Cape Flattery for the Flattery Rocks, and name the southern cape of De Fuca strait, with 
Berkely, Meares, and Duncan, Cape Classett. t i 
On the old Spanish charts the Flattery Rocks are usually called Islas los Deseados, which 
is probably intended as a translation of the English Flattery Rocks. 
A view of these rocks is contained in the United Coast Survey Report for 1855. 
* See Duncan's chart, published by Dalrymple. 
T Vancouver, L. C., page 218. 
{ Vancouver writes Classett, while Duncan writes Claaset. 
