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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1887)
m' THE WEST SHORE. of the entrance, made by Gray. The this entire region, and it was not long Chatham croswd the bar, and the Dis- before the full extent and character of nrtrry remained outside. Broughton as- the Columbia became well known, eroded in a boat, as far as the site of the The Columbia is one of the mighty prewnt town of Vancouver, but failed rivers of the world. It gathers the to oUerve the mouth of the Willamette, rains and melting snows of a vast re He did, however, discover and name Mt gion, and pours them in a broad and Hood, and Vancouver himself saw St deep stream into the great Pacific. One Helena, from his position outside the branch, the Snake, or Lewis' Fork, rises bar, and gave it the name it now bears, in Wyoming, in the rugged, and almost Uroughton took formal possession of the impenetrable, Teton mountains, and in river in the name of King George, and the southern portion of the National then returned to his vessel, crossed over Park of the Yellowstone, but a few the bar, and sailed away in company miles from the headwaters of the Mis with hi benior officer. souri; another, the Clarke's Fork, finds Id 1803, France sold Louisiana to the its source in Montana, near the fountain lnited States, and the following year two head of another branch of the Missouri army officers, Capt Meriweather Lewis the third, or main stream, rises in the and Capt. William Clarke, led the first Rocky mountains, in British Columbia, overland expedition from the Mississip- sweeps northward around the Selkirk pi to the Pacfia They ascended the mountains, flows south, between that VuSZ V Tm'l f th6 raDge aDd the Gold mountains, into the rive fcthe C. h ' rV1"' States, to mingle its waters with nverto the Columbia and reached the those of the Clarke's Fork and Snake C aL7 and Ihl U1 7 " mUntain8 gorge of the UaUop, and the follow g spring began Columbia, and thus gain an outlet to b return journey, during the Wil. the ocean 6 ou the twenty. 'o 2rW itb a fund of inforlaZ S S 2 L T f f Kt light upon the dark!. IT? Artl8t8 have nt i the kl Ul8UkBS t gl?Kf ' 8Un86t8' ita dured banks IJ of the Columbia 1i r' cUffs' ita cadesandwa- Their namo. were bltveT uJ T and ita shadowing peaks of largest tributaries of the JTri. u . 8DW' while maflters o the pen or Sahaptin, river feKS favn rein to their enthusiasm, Fork, and the other, CS V f Biyer of the rork. the Utu-r being, however f h& P61 into every nook only on, now maineA In . " e rner of the world where the En- jk Fur Company founded 1 langUage ia 8Pken- Ti ath. mouth of the river, J ftwo vea V' ited ,1J lt to the Northwest ZZl E"8" d Jo ere, eight ye4re afted' Catskills or White by the Hud., Bayr' stains, felt to hasten -pp:ng pani 0f the '73 the Atlantic to view the gran- l, P'teejbutnow.howehgedl Ihe pmneer of the. West has opened up