Category: History - American
North-west America.--Plateau of Anahuac.--Rocky Mountains.--New-Albion.--New Caledonia.--Oregon, or Oregan, the River of the West.--The Columbia River.--Extent of the Oregon Territory.--The Country of the Columbia.--Opening of the Fur Trade in 1786.--Vancouver.--Straits of Ani...
North-west America.--Plateau of Anahuac.--Rocky Mountains.--New-Albion.--New Caledonia.--Oregon, or Oregan, the River of the West.--The Columbia River.--Extent of the Oregon Ter...
2. CHAPTER II.Voyage of Francisco de Ulloa, in 1539.--Cabrillo, in 1542.--Drake, in 1577-80.--The Famous Voyage.--The World Encompassed.--Nuño da Silva.--Edward Cliffe.--Francis Pretty, not t...
3. CHAPTER III.The Voyage of Francisco de Gualle, or Gali, in 1584.--Of Viscaino, in in 1598.--River of Martin d'Aguilar.--Cessation of Spanish Enterprises.--Jesuit Missions in California in t...
4. CHAPTER IV.Memoir of Lorenzo Ferrer Maldonado, in 1588.--Voyage of the Descubierta and Atrevida, in 1791.--Tale of Juan de Fuca, in 1592.--Voyages of Meares, Vancouver, and Lieutenant Wilk...
5. CHAPTER V.The King George's Sound Company, in 1785.--Dixon and Portlock.--The Nootka and Sea Otter.--The Captain Cook and Experiment.--Expedition of Captain Hanna under the Portuguese Fla...
6. CHAPTER VI.The Oregon, or Great River of the West, discovered by D. Bruno Heceta, in 1775. Ensenada de Heceta.--Rio de San Roque.--Meares' Voyage in the Felice, in 1788.--Deception Bay.--V...
7. CHAPTER VII.Connexion of the Sovereignty of a Nation with the Domain.--Vattel. The Sovereignty and Eminent Domain (Dominium eminens) attend on Settlement by a Nation.--Settlement by an Indi...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Discovery not recognised by the Roman law.--Wolff.--The Discovery must be notified.--Illustration of the Principle in reference to Nootka Sound.--Vattel.--Discovery must be by v...
9. CHAPTER IX.Title by Settlement an imperfect Title.--Presumption of Law in its Favour.--Made perfect by undisturbed Possession.--Wheaton.--Title by Usucaption or Prescription.--Vattel.--Acq...
10. CHAPTER X.Title by Conquest.--Title by Convention.--Vattel--Martens.--Wheaton.--The Practice of Nations.--United States.--Great Britain.--Kent's Commentaries.--Mixed Conventions.--The Fis...
11. CHAPTER XI.Treaty of Ghent, 1814.--Negotiations respecting the Restoration of Fort George.--The United States replaced in Possession of the Post at the Mouth of the Columbia River.--Genera...
12. CHAPTER XII.Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi, in 1542.--British Discoveries in 1654 and 1670.--French Expeditions.--De la Salle, in 1682.--Settlement in the Bay of St. Bernard, in...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The Treaty of San Ildefonso.--Ineffectual Negotiations between Spain and the United States, in 1805, respecting the Boundary of Louisiana.--Resumed in 1817.--M. Kerlet's Memoir...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Proceedings in Congress after the Convention of 1818.--Russian Ukase of 1821.--Russian Title to the North-west Coast of America.--Declaration of President Monroe, of Dec. 2, 182...
15. CHAPTER XV.Exclusive Sovereignty for the first Time claimed by the United States over the Valley of the Columbia.--The Statements relied upon to support this, not correct.--The Multnomah R...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Revival of Negotiations.--Written Statements of respective Claims.--The United States.--Great Britain.--Rights supposed to be derived from the Acquisition of Louisiana.--Jeffery...
17. CHAPTER XVII.General line of Argument on either Side.--Original Title of the United States.--Nationality of a Merchant Ship.--Mr. Buchanan's Statement.--Mr. Rush's View.--The Practice of Nat...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Presumption in Favour of the Common Right of Great Britain.--No exclusive Rights in Spain or the United States.--Convention of 1818.--Convention of 1827.--Mr. Rush's Admission i...