924 Memoires et Documents 
[1842]. Topographical description of missions in 
northern part of New California; commercial statistics for 
this part of province ; information on northwest whale 
fisheries; Monterey; San Francisco; relations with Hawaiian 
Islands; U.S. colonists; Hudson Bay Company settlement; 
Russian settlements; Captain Sutter and New Switzerland; 
beaver trade; salmon fisheries; Russian port of La Bodega; 
agriculture; fauna; commerce; cattle; lumber; imports; 
whaling vessels; furs; vessels which put in to Monterey 
and San Francisco in 1840 and 1841 (ff. 249-348). 
44 (1843) [Mexico. California. Oregon] 
[This volume consists entirely of memoirs submitted 
by Eugene Duflot de Mofras in 1843, on his return from a 
special mission of observation to the northwest coast of 
America.] 
Memoir on customs of inhabitants of California, 
description of California desert, and considerations on 
political future of California and on Hawaiian Islands as 
natural appendage of California; customs; Indians; bounda- 
ries; geology; climatology; hydrography; meteorology; 
British and American encroachments; French influence; 
necessity for France of continental settlement on Pacific 
Ocean; fort of American Fur Company of St. Louis, Missouri; 
Hudson Bay Company forts; Rocky Mountain passes; U.S. offer 
to purchase San Francisco; substitution of French mission- 
aries for Spanish clergy; Russians in Hawaiian Islands, 
1812-1815; Honolulu (ff. 2-51). 
Memoir on Russian settlement at La Bodega, near San 
Francisco in Upper California, and on means of gaining 
possession of that place and of linking it up with Hawaiian 
Islands; Fort Ross; New Archangel; Russian agreement with 
Sutter; Russian evacuation; goods ceded to Sutter in Sept., 
1842; ease with which France may purchase remaining Russian 
settlements; Canadian colonists (ff. 54-90). 
Memoir on Oregon and Columbia River territory in 
dispute between Britain and U.S.; voyages of Carver, Heceta, 
Meares, Gray,' Galiano, and Vancouver; topography; Fort 
George, or Astoria; discovery of Nootka; New Caledonia; 
population; Hudson Bay Company; Northwest Company; their 
fusion, operations, and territory; Fort Vancouver; Puget 
Sound Company; U.S. expeditions; Lewis and Clarke; Missouri 
Fur Company; Pacific Fur Company; Astoria; Anglo-American 
war; Treaty of Ghent, 1814; North American Company; Columbia 
Fur Company; expedition of Ashley; Rocky Mountains Fur 
Company; voyages of Green and Bonneville; Columbia River 
Fishing and Trading Company; voyages of Parker and Slocum; 
Oregon Provisional Emigration Society; letter of Poinsett 
to Cushing, 1839; opinion of Paulding; scientific exploratlpn 
by American squadron, 1841; maritime commerce and American 
colonists in Oregon; examination of British and American 
charges; history of negotiations; interest of France in 
Oregon question (ff. 91-223). 
Memoir on Russian America; voyages of Bering and 
Kratlizin; Russian-Spanish correspondence; Russian company, 
