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Family Compact, 207 — Proceedings in the National Assembly of France on the Subject, 

 208 — Spain engages to indemnify the British for the Property seized, 205 — Further De- 

 mands of Great Britain — Designs of Pitt against Spanish America, 206 — Secret Mediation 

 of France, through which the Dispute is settled, 209 — Convention of October, 1790, 

 called the Nootka Treaty, 210 — Proceedings in Parliament, and Reflections on this Con- 

 vention, 211. 



CHAPTER X. 



1790 to 1792. 



Vancouver sent by the British Government to explore the Coasts of America, and receive 

 Possession of Lands and Buildings agreeably to the Convention with Spain, 216 — Passage 

 of the Washington, under Kendrick, through the Strait of Fuca, in 1789, 218 — Nootka re- 

 occupied by the Spaniards, 220 — Voyages of Fidalgo, Quimper, Elisa, Billings, Marchand, 

 and Malaspina, 221 — Voyages of the American Fur Traders, Gray, Ingraham, and Ken- 

 drick, 224 — Discovery of the Washington Islands by Ingraham, 226. 



CHAPTER XI. 



1792 to 1796. 



Vancouver and Broughton arrive on the American Coasts in 1792, and meet with Gray, who 

 informs them of his Discovery of the Columbia River, 233 — The Strait of Fuca surveyed 

 by Vancouver, Galiano, and Valdes, 238 — Negotiations between Vancouver and Quadra 

 at Nootka, 243 — Vancouver's Injustice to the Americans, 244, 248,256 — Broughton's Ex- 

 amination of the Lower Part of the Columbia River, 247 — Vancouver's Proceedings at the 

 Sandwich Islands, 249 — He completes the Survey of the North- West Coasts of America, 

 and returns to England, 255 — The Spaniards abandon Nootka, 257 — Conclusions with 

 Regard to the Dispute between Great Britain and Spain, and the Convention of 1790, 258. 



CHAPTER XII. 



1788 to 1810. 



Establishment of the North- West Fur Trading Company of Montreal, in 1784, 261 — Expedi- 

 tions of Mackenzie to the Arctic Sea and to the Pacific Coast, 263 — The Trade between 

 the North Pacific Coasts of America and Canton conducted almost exclusively by Vessels 

 of the United States from 1796 to 1814,266 — Establishment of the Russian American 

 Company, 269 — Its Settlements and Factories on the American Coasts, 270 — Expedition 

 of Krusenstern through the North Pacific, 272 — Proposition of the Russian Government 

 to that of the United States, with Regard to the Trade of the North Pacific, 275. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



1803 to 1806. 



Cession of Louisiana by France to the United States, 276 — Inquiries as to the true Extent 

 of Louisiana, 277 — Erroneous Supposition that its Limits towards the North had been 

 fixed by Commissaries agreeably to the Treaty of Utrecht, 281 — President Jefferson sends 

 Lewis and Clarke to examine the Missouri and Columbia, 284 — Account of their Expedi- 

 tion from the Mississippi to the Pacific, 285. 



