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the forty-ninth degree of latitude in the Gulf of Georgia, 

 to Olympia in the south, to the entrance of the Strait 

 of Fuca at the Pacific entrance, should, "for the pur- 

 poses of this discussion be known as Puget Sound." 



A more recent case is that where Germany changed 

 the names of all the islands and waters northeast of New 

 Guinea, in the year 1884. The names used by the Dutch, 

 English, and French from their early discoverers, and 

 those names used by the natives, were wiped from the 

 maps and geographies. Every trader had known the 

 native and the previously adopted names, but "the maps 

 have been modified in the spirit of a mistaken or aggres- 

 sive patriotism," etc. (Reclus, Volume Australia, page 

 319.) 



The accepted right of the early discoverers has never 

 been traversed by competent geographic authority. Car- 

 ver named the Oregon or Oregan from Indian reports, 

 although he never saw it, but Robert Gray first entered 

 the mouth and named it the "Columbia's River," after 

 one of his vessels. Vancouver, who had failed at the 

 entrance, promptly acknowledged Gray's rights; and 

 after Broughton, in the Chatham, surveyed it to Point 

 Vancouver, Vancouver called it the Columbia River on 

 his charts and in his narrative. 



Meares' name of Cape Disappointment is retained, and 

 Cape Hancock of Gray is forgotten, but Point Adams 

 lives. Gray's Bay in the Columbia is retained, and Gray's 

 Harbor remains. 



We need not refer to Wilkes (1841) applying the 

 names of his officers to the islands of Washington Sound, 

 and proposing to call the Sound the Navy Archipelago. 

 They are reminiscences. 



The Spaniards, in 1774-93, Cook (1778), Vancouver 

 (1792-94), were the early governmental discoverers and 

 explorers on the Northwest Coast after the discoveries 

 of Bering and Chirikof in 1741. 



Neither party knowingly interfered with the original 

 names given by the others. Vancouver's narrative shows 



