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tives. and without any view to culli, slion.
and permanent seilh meui. ranro;. of
themselves. and unsuYpored y sry or'e
consideration, give ury tsvor ti'e 70 do
minion and absolute eovrseigulg th,a
similar esla l,hmenls msls i's = civiizsd
country" However true lhis n,.y te "a
an abstract proposition, it nus, be sdni'.
ted that, practically. the modest Bri,Fh
factory ?, Cscutt ha. gradually rrow- Up
into also,ut" and uadi-nu,rd sovereignty
over population OF eighty u,ii'ious Of poo
pie.
The qUes,io7s which. NJ it appears to
ne. may tc allowed Is The United S'a,s
to te de'a,atle. and tbpreiore to nlrk" /,
questionable whether 'hey have a ccni-
Plete right to the whole Oregon lelrilo-y,
are:
is'. The Nootka cove 7ton. which 1p-
plies IA the whole. and which. though not
ol primary impo ,aner, is nrycrthrlrsf a
fact, and tiIr iuirrencrs dr,wn from il a
matter of argument.
2dly. Tae discovery OF the Straits Of
Fuca.
3dlv. North Of those e'rni,s. a'ouz lhr
sea shores, the discoveries 0i ne British
contrasied wifi those cf the American 4 and
Spanish navjgalols: in IT, inurior. the
question wEprher the discovery e the
nouh and the navigator Of ore of lie
principal braurhrs. from il source to the
mouth Of INC river, implies without exccr-
ton complete right To the Whole country
drained hy a! the tri niarie- Of srri river;
Il also the British claim - I've whole tel
Cjt1ry drained hy FraEer'- riVrr-its sour-
rps htviHg hrrn discnvpred in 1892 ~ Sir
Alexander Muckal zjr. flrIores having
heen established urn3 it hy jhr rtli-h as
carly a. the year I8O6, and the whole river
/ thence TO its mouth having uccn ilra num-
her Of years exclusively navigaied by Bri.
ti,h suhects.
1t appears to me sufficiently generally
70 suggest the rnniroverled points. That
which relates to Fuca'- Straits is the most
important, and deserves particular conside-
ration.
If Fuca's voyageir 1922 could lp proved
% 70 an authentic document, this would
settle at once the question ia favor of tie
! United States; but the ,oyage Was DENIED
| in the introduc'ion 10 thu voyage Of he
! Sutl and Mexicano. This was an Official
| documpnt. pm unlished under the auspices Of
the Spanish q GoverrmeHt, and intended to
! Itiu tl,a r1,.,r,-n- tl,.,
she had 20 ltrihuted nothing tn The Vance
mrnt OF Crographv ia those Quarters
This Heg,rv, evidencr was confirmed by
HUMBOLDT, who SAYS thai no trace Of such
vaya-e can he found in the archives Ot
Mexiro. Unwilling TO adAure any douhl-
tut fart, I ahstaiued from alludi'- 70 it in
the stalemcnto! o! thu American case in 1926
Later researChp- show Ihat. although re-
corded evidences remain OF The voyages
OF Cali from Macao 10 Arapucoin 1854, Of
the Santa Ana (ol hoard Of vhjrh was,
rs hc spys, Fura hms"I) from Ma Ina TO
the coast OF California, " here she was rap
tured in 1857 hy Cavendish, and Of Vzcai-
IN IN lGn2-lG02, and even Of MaIionadn'-
fictitious vO,age in l5H8, yet no trace has
been found in Spain or Mexico Of Fuca's
or any other similar voyage, i'll 1892, or
lhereahout.
On reading with attention he brief ac-
count published hy Porchas, wIIIsay thar
The voyage itself has niUth internal evil
dpnce Of its truth, hut r"at the inference
or conclusion throws much discrpdii the
whole. The only known account of the
voyage is that given verbally at Venice ia
1896, BY Fuca, Greek pilot, to Nj, Lock,
respectable English merchant, who lruns-
milled it to Parchas.
Fuca SAYS that he had teen sent by the
Vicery OF Mexico 10 discover he stats OF
Anian and the passage thereof into the
sea, which they called the North Sra, winch
is 0ur .NJTh,opd Sra; thar between AZ and
48 degrees of latitude he entered into a
broad inle., through which he sailed
more than twenty days; and, heiag ,her
come in!o the North Sea already, and rot
being sufficiently armed, he returned again
to Acapulco He offered then tn Mr. Lock
te 60 into Ehgllpd and serve her Majesty
in voyage Tor the discovery peril city OF
the Northwest passage into the South Sea.
l II Dt RTdUltN tidl tUV lliPl lUIOugli
which he had sailed was really the same as
the straits which now bear his name that
sea into which he emerged, and which he
says to Re our Northeast Sea, must have
been that which is now called Queen Char
lottes Sound, north of Quadra and Van
couver's Island, in about 81 degrees of
latitude. Oar Southwest Sea was that
which washes the shores Of Newtound-
land and Labrador, then universally known
as far north as the vicinity of the 6Olh de-
gree of latitude. Hudson's Straits had not
yet been discovered, and the discovery oil
Davis's Strait might not te known to Fuca.
But no navigator at that time, who, ike he,
had sailed across both the Atlantic and the
Pacific Oceans, could be ignorant that the
northern extremity Of Nowioundlaud,
which lies nearly in the same latitude as
the northern entrance Of Fuca's Straits, is
situated sixty or seventy degrees OF oLei-
tude west OF that entrance. The only way