 | Robert Greenhow - America - 1840 - 250 pages
...it lies in the latitude of 46 degrees 10 minutes north, and in the computed longitude of 235 degrees 34 minutes east. We can now with safety assert that...Saint Roc exists, as laid down in the Spanish charts." This assertion, though somewhat ungrammatically expressed, 1788. is yet sufficiently clear and explicit.... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - America - 1840 - 250 pages
...it lies in the latitude of 46 degrees 10 minutes north, and in the computed longitude of 235 degrees 34 minutes east. We can now with safety assert that...there is no such river as that of Saint Roc exists, at laid dmrni in the Spanish charts." This assertion, though somewhat ungrammatically expressed, 93... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - America - 1840 - 254 pages
...degrees 10 minutes north, and in the computed longitude of 235 degrees 34 minutes east. We can now irith safety assert that there is no such river as that of Saint Roc exists, at laid dmcn in the Spanish charts. " This assertion, though somewhat ungrammatically expressed, 93... | |
 | Commerce - 1842 - 608 pages
...it lies in the latitude of 46 deg. 10 min. north, and in the computed longitude of 235 deg. 34 min. east. We can now with safety assert that there is...Roc exists, as laid down in the Spanish charts." It appears, therefore, that Captain Meares made no discovery of any such inlet or river. The idea of its... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1843 - 400 pages
...Deception Bay." He gives its latitude 46° 10' north, and writes, " We can now with safety assert that no such river as that of Saint Roc exists, as laid down in Spanish charts." In the year 1791, no less than seven American vessels arrived in the North Pacific,... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - California - 1844 - 516 pages
...it lies in the latitude of 46 degrees 10 minutes north, and in the computed longitude of 235 degrees 34 minutes east. " We can now with safety assert that there is no such river as that of St. Roc exists, as laid down in the Spanish charts. To those of Maurelle we made continual reference,... | |
 | Travers Twiss - Northwest boundary of the United States - 1846 - 304 pages
...and to the bay itself the title of Deception Bay. " We can now with safety assert," he writes, " that no such river as that of Saint Roc exists, as laid down in the Spanish charts." Meares had been led from these charts to expect ' that he should find a place of shelter for his ship... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis - Lewis and Clark Expedition - 1847 - 398 pages
...Deception Bay" He gives its latitude 46° 10' north, and writes, " We can now with safety assert that no such river as that of Saint Roc exists, as laid down in Spanish charts." In the year 1791, no less than seven American vessels arrived in the North Pacific,... | |
 | Gustavus Hines - Missions - 1850 - 456 pages
...coast, was to ascertain whether there was such a river in existence ; and the account which he has given of his discoveries, at this point, will show...observation, that no great river entered the Pacific ocean from the American continent at this point. And, second, that no such river had previously been discovered... | |
 | Gustavus Hines - Missions - 1852 - 462 pages
...from the deck right ahead, and from the mast-head they were observed to extend across the bay ; wre, therefore,, hauled out and directed our course to...observation, that no great river entered the Pacific ocean from the American continent at this point. And, second, that no such river had previously been discovered... | |
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... they were observed to extend across the bay ; we, therefore, hauled out and directed our course to the opposite shore, to see if there was any channel, or if we could discover any port. " The name of Cape Disappointment was given to the promontory,... 
