*No. 41.[46]
* * * “The historical facts are too well authenticated to be permanently misunderstood. They were so well known at the time, that even the rivalry—not to say the detraction—of the day conceded to Gray the merit of the discovery by designating the river by the name he gave it—the name of the vessel that first entered its waters.” * * * “Look at the map of Oregon on your table, by Captain Wilkes, and you will find Gray’s Bay, so named by Broughton, (see Vancouver’s Journal, vol. 3, p. 92,) on the north side of the Columbia, and higher up than Astoria. According to Gray’s own log, he anchored, the day he discovered and entered the river, ten miles above the entrance, and three days after he sailed twelve or fifteen miles higher up. He must, therefore, have been from six to fifteen miles above the site of the settlement at Astoria.” * * *Wilkes’s map of Oregon the map used by the American Senate.