What to see in America . ans alone usedfor packing the annual catch in the river cost over a thirdof a million dollars. 504 What to See in America Captain Gray, a New England skipper, discovered theriver in 1792. He sailed up to where Astoria now is, raisedthe American flag, and took possession of the region in thename of the United States. His staunch vessel, the Columbia,furnished the river its name. Ocean going ships of thedeepest draft can navigate the river for more than a hundredmiles, and it is the main artery of water traffic for a regionwhich is imperial in its size and its resources.
What to see in America . ans alone usedfor packing the annual catch in the river cost over a thirdof a million dollars. 504 What to See in America Captain Gray, a New England skipper, discovered theriver in 1792. He sailed up to where Astoria now is, raisedthe American flag, and took possession of the region in thename of the United States. His staunch vessel, the Columbia,furnished the river its name. Ocean going ships of thedeepest draft can navigate the river for more than a hundredmiles, and it is the main artery of water traffic for a regionwhich is imperial in its size and its resources. Thirty milesabove its mouth it is six miles wide, and near where itjoins the sea it broadens to seventeen miles. No wonderthen that the early navigators mistook it for a great bay ofthe ocean! For a long time Great Britain claimed that the Columbiashould be the dividing line between western Canada and theUnited States, but in 1846 it was definitely agreed that thedisputed boundary should follow the forty-ninth Salmon in Net An important tributary of the lower Columbia is theWillamette, which flows northerly and joins the greater riverone hundred and twenty miles from the Pacific. In theWillamette Valley flowers and strawberries are picked nearlyevery month of the twelve, and sweet peas live through thewinter and blossom anew in May. Tales are told of a hun- Oregon 505 dred cherries, some of them an inch in diameter, growing on asingle twig, of nine-pound carrots, and parsnips five feetlong. The valley boasts of a greater variety and number ofgame birds than any other region in the United States. One autumn evening in 1843 two men landed from a canoeand pitched their tent for the night under the pine treeson the west bankof the Willa-mette, ten miles ^tfrom where it ffmakes a junctionwith the Colum- ^^ ^bia. On the site ^yjrttjlsiiri^-^of their encamp-ment they pro-jected a town,and withm a fewmonths a clearing was made and a log cabin built. About ayear later the fi
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