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