274 «GEOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR. 
It was made onthe 15th of August, 1788, and published by Dalrymple on the 14th of January, 
1790. The name of Strait of Juan de Fuca is given to it in the title. 
Meares published in his great work, in the year 1790, his own as well as Berkely’s and Duf- 
fin’s discoveries and observations on the strait. This work and chart are alittle later than that 
of Duncan. Meares’s chart is dated 28th of November, 1790. But the strait is already pro- 
longed on it towards the east, and the bend in its central part is indicated. . In the year 1789, 
the American captain, Robert Gray, entered the strait, and passed, as he himself asserts, as 
far as fifty miles up into the interior.* 
Mr. Greenough believes that soon after Gray, (1189,) the American captain, Kendrick sailed 
through the whole strait, and came out again through Queen Charlotte’s sound ; but this cannot 
be proved by historical documents. 
The Spaniards, soon after, made a series of explorations, by which the whole strait was 
thoroughly reconnoitered, surveyed, and laid down on charts. The first of these expeditions 
was that of the ship Gertrudis, in the year 1789, under Don Gonzalo Lopez de Haro, sent out 
by Don Esteran Martinez, the Spanish commander at Nootka, who, as I have already said, be- 
lieved himself to be the first discoverer of the entrance of the strait. Some authors think 
that not Haro, but Don José Maria Narvaez, commanded this expedition. 
The Gertrudis sailed along the southern shore of Vancouver’s Island, as far as the entrance 
of De Haro’s strait. The next year, (1790,) the strait was explored by Don Manuel Quimper, 
who passed along the southern shore as high as Puerto Quadra, or our Port Discovery. 
In the year 1791 a third Spanish exploring expedition entered the strait under Captain 
Francisco Elisa and Joseph Narvaez, who passed for the first time through the whole strait, and 
entered to the north of the Gulf of Georgia. "Their ne plus ultra was about the mouth of Fra- 
ser’s river. 
In April, 1792, Vancouver, who was not acquainted with all those Spanish explorations, 
entered the strait and again surveyed it. He explored, also, many branches of it, which the 
Spaniards had omitted, (for instance, the interior of Admiralty Inlet,) but he also omitted 
several harbors which his Spanish predecessors had already explored, (for instance, the harbors 
on the south shore, between Port Discovery and Cape Flattery.) 
In June, 1792, a fourth Spanish expedition, particularly destined for De Fuca strait, the ex- 
pedition of the ships Sutil and Mexicana, under Captains Jaliano and Valdes, entered the strait. 
But they could not add much to a knowledge of the western part of the strait, which had been 
already pretty well explored. They finished, in company with Vancouver, the survey of the 
Gulf of Georgia. 
During the present century, the officers of the Hudson Bay Company have explored the 
strait in every direction, but have published little or nothing about their operations. 
In the year 1846 Captain Kellet, in the ship Herald, and* Lieutenant Wood, in the ship 
Panderer, again explored many parts of the strait, especially its northern shore. 
In the year 1852 the operations of the United States Coast Survey were extended to this 
region, and detailed surveys are now actively progressing. Preliminary charts of most of the 
important harbors, passages, and inlets have already been executed and published. The strait 
has always retained the name it now has. 
2 These as 
given in Vancouver, vol. I, p. 214. 
