 | James Stanier Clarke, Stephen Jones, John Jones - 1799 - 640 Seiten
...or place of security for shipping on this coast, from Cape Mendocino to the Promontory of Classet ; nor had we any reason to alter our opinions, notwithstanding...extensive rivers, with safe and convenient ports. These ideas, not derived from any source of substantial information, have, it is much to be feared,... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - 1840 - 250 Seiten
...Cape Mendocino to the promontory of Olasset, [Cape Flattery, at the entrance of the Strait of Fuca;] nor had we any reason to alter our opinions, notwithstanding...extensive rivers with safe and convenient ports." From the above extracts, it is evident that Captain Vancouver placed no reliance on the correctness... | |
 | 1842 - 608 Seiten
...security for shipping, on this coast, from Cape Mendocino to the promontory of Classet, (Cape Flattery,) nor had we any reason to alter our opinions, notwithstanding...extensive rivers, with safe and convenient ports." Whatever may have been the motives which prevented Vancouver from placing any reliance on the accounts... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - 1844 - 516 Seiten
...Cape Mendocino to the promontory of Classet, [Cape Flattery, at the entrance of the Strait of Fuca;] nor had we any reason to alter our opinions, notwithstanding...extensive rivers with safe and convenient ports." Having thus recorded his convictions, the British navigator proceeded to survey the Strait of Fuca... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - 1845 - 456 Seiten
...Cape Mendocino to the promontory of Classet, [Cape Flattery, at the entrance of the Strait of Fuca ;] nor had we any reason to alter our opinions, notwithstanding...that theoretical geographers have thought proper to assertjn that space the existence of arms of the ocean communicating with a mediterranean sea, and... | |
 | John Adams Dix - 1864 - 466 Seiten
...harbor, or place of security for shipping on this coast, from Mendocino to the promontory of Classet ; nor had we any reason to alter our opinions, notwithstanding...extensive rivers, with safe and convenient ports. These ideas, not derived from any source of substantial information, have, it is much to be feared,... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1884 - 782 Seiten
...or place of security for shipping on this coast, from Cape Mendocino to the promontory of Classett; nor had we any reason to alter our opinions, notwithstanding...proper to assert, in that space, the existence of anus of the ocean . . . and extensive rivers." This record of failure to find the Columbia River was... | |
 | Washington (State) - 1901 - 336 Seiten
...harbor or place of security for shipping on this coast from Cape. Mendocino to the promontory Classett ; nor had we any reason to alter our opinions, notwithstanding...geographers have thought proper to assert in that place the existence of arms of the ocean and extensive rivers." Vancouver was a perfectly honest explorer,... | |
 | william a mowry am phd - 1902
...Cape Mendocino to the promontory of Classet, [Cape Flattery at the entrance of the Strait of Fuca;] nor had we any reason to alter our opinions, notwithstanding...sea, and extensive rivers with safe and convenient ports.1 After leaving Vancouver, Captain Gray sailed away toward the mouth of the river, which he was... | |
 | William Augustus Mowry - 1902 - 292 Seiten
...Cape Mendocino to the promontory of Classet, [Cape Flattery at the entrance of the Strait of Fuca;] nor had we any reason to alter our opinions, notwithstanding...sea, and extensive rivers with safe and convenient ports.1 After leaving Vancouver, Captain Gray sailed away toward the mouth of the river, which he was... | |
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I was thoroughly con. vinced, as were also most persons of observation on board, that we could not possibly have passed any safe navigable opening, harbour, or place of security for shipping on this coast, from Cape Mendocino to the Promontory of Classet... 
