Adams, J. Quincy, negotiates the Florida Treaty,169.Aguilar, Martin d’,53,58.Alarcon, Fernando,73.Albion, New,15.Anahuac, plateau of,14.Anderson on Commerce,148,158.Anian, Straits of, said to be discovered by Cortereal, in 1500,18.Argonaut, the, seized at Nootka,81.Arkansas River,166,170.Astor, John Jacob,23,236.Astoria, established in 1811,24.Transferred by purchase to North-west Company in 1813,25,192,238.Surrendered to the United States,239,252.Sub modo,241.Not a national settlement,237.Atlantic Colonies,213.Barclay, Captain, first descries the Straits of Fuca,19,62.Behring’s Voyage,54.Belsham’s History of England,92.Bernard, St., Bay of,155.Biographie Universelle, error as to Drake,30,36.As to Gali,54.Bodega, Port de la,42,58.Bodega y Quadra,56.Bracton de Legibus,113.Broughton, Lieut., explores the Columbia,104.Takes possession of the country,105.Bulfinch’s Harbour,254.Bynkershoek on Discovery,118.Cabrillo, Juan Rodrigues, voyage in 1542,26.Caledonia, New,15.Calhoun, Mr., letter of Sept. 3, 1844,200.Speech in 1843,264.California, peninsula of, discovered in 1539, by F. de Ulloa,26.A peninsula,54.Jesuit missions,54.A cluster of islands,74.Spanish possessions,167.Camden, Life of Elizabeth,45.Canada, limits of,150.Cession of,211.Carver, Jonathan, travels in North America,16.First announces a river called Oregon, or the Great River of the West,16.Cascade Canal,20.Castillo, Domingo de,26.Cavendish, Thomas, voyage of,32.Cavallo, Juan,77.Channing, Dr.,228.Charters,212.Of Georgia,197.Carolina,196.To what extent valid,157.Of the Hudson’s Bay Company,158.Argument from,159.Clarke. SeeLewis and Clarke.Clarke, River, discovered,22,233.Source in 45° 30′,190.Clatsop, Fort,22,234.Cliffe, Edward, his narrative,28.Colnett, Capt.,62,79.Instructions to,204.Colorado, Rio, del Occidente,14.Columbia, country of the,17.Mouth,94.Bay,95.River,105.Progressive discovery of the River,108.Proposed as a boundary by Spain, in 1819,165.Exploration by Gray,243.Northernmost bank,191.Course,198.Extent of valley,198.Columbia, merchant ship,16,62.Log book,101.Congress, documents of,208.Contiguity, doctrine advanced by Mr. Gallatin,218.A reciprocal title,127.Convention of 1818,145,178,241.Of 1803, not ratified,251.Of 1806, ditto,147.Conventions, transitory,129.Mixed,133.Cook, Captain, instructions to,15,58.Discovery of Nootka,116.Coronado, Vasquez de,153.Cortereal, Gaspar de,18.Crozat’s grant of Louisiana,155.Davis, John, the navigator,44.Descubierta and Atrevida, voyage of the,66.Discovery, title by,116.Not in the Roman law,115.Conditions of,121.Progressive,122.Requires Notification,200.An inchoate act of sovereignty,230.Dixon and Portlock,61,76.Domain, eminent,111.Useful,111.Drake, Sir G., his voyage,27.French account,30.Knighted by Queen Elizabeth,39.Limits of voyage,40.His discovery maintained by British negotiators,186.Duflot de Mofras,93,160.Duncan and Colnett,62.Elizabeth, Queen, reply to Mendoza,118.Speech of,45,259.Escarbot’s Histoire de la Nouvelle France,167.Escurial, Convention of the,86,201,244.Mr. Greenhow’s view,90.British rights under, ascertained,262.Eyriés, M., error as to Drake,35.Gali,52.Factories, or comptoirs,206.Falconer’s treatise on the Mississippi,155.Family Compact,86.Felice and Iphigenia,77.Ferrelo, Bartholeme,27.Flag, on the, Dr. Chaning,228.Mr. Gallatin,230.Fletcher, World Encompassed,28,35.Manuscript notes,38.Fleurieu,30,47.Florida Treaty. SeeWashington.Fonte, Bartholemé,70,171.Francisco, Port San, the northernmost possession of Spain,42,260.Frazer’s River,20.Frazer’s Lake,21.Fort,261,262.Fuca, Juan de, Straits of,19.Discovery claimed by Martinez,56.Discovered by Barclay,62.Story of,66.Not mentioned in Spanish archives,69.Spanish claim,171.Fur Company, American,23.Missouri,23.Pacific,23.Fur trade,18.Gali, Francisco,50,54.Galiano and Valdes,19.SeeSutil and Mexicano.Gallatin, Mr., his doctrine of discovery,109.Letter to Mr. Astor,194.His counter-statement in 1826,208.George, Fort,143.Georgia, New,15.Gray, Captain, first explored the mouth of the Columbia River,62.Crosses the bar,101.Extent of his researches,108.Hakluyt, Collection of Voyages,27.Hanna, Captain,77.Hanover, New,15.Hearne, journey of,58.Heceta, voyage of,56.Inlet of,57,94.Discovery of the Columbia River,95,243.Hennepin, Father,157.Henry, Mr., established a trading post on the Lewis River,23,236.High lands, territorial limits,196.Horn, Cape, discovered,54.Hudson’s Bay Company,20.Title,125.Territory,213.Boundaries,147.Humboldt, Alexander von,46,233.Iberville, D’,155.Illinois, the, annexed to Louisiana,156.Nation of,210.Ingraham, Joseph, pilot of the Columbia,81.Jefferson, President, letter on Louisiana,146,160.Jefferys’ America,154,161,210.Jessup, General,179.Jesuit missions,54.Johnson, Dr., Life of Sir F. Drake,46.Jurisdiction, maritime,184,173.Kerlet’s memoir on Louisiana,164.Kendrick, Capt.,63,81.King, Capt. James, first suggests a trade in furs with north-west coast of America,18,60.King George’s Sound Company,76.Kluber, Droit des Gens,112,117.Kooskooskee River,22.Lake of the Woods,145.Rainy,149.Red,149.Travers,149.Abbitibbe,149.Law, international rules of, at Treaty of Washington,172.Lewis and Clarke’s expedition,22.Encampment on south bank of River Columbia,235.Lewis, or Snake River,22.Liberties distinct from rights,137.Lorenzo, Bay of San,55,59.Louisiana, limits of Crozat’s Grant,155.Jefferys’ America,154,210.Declaration of France in 1761,212.Cession of,147.Western boundaries,158.Sold to the United States,157.Extent of,210,212.Mackenzie, Alexander, first crosses the Rocky Mountains,19.Maldonado, pretended voyage,65.The author a Fleming,66.Maps, of Ortelius and Hondius,45,74.Of the 16th and 17th century,74.Difficulty from incorrect,150.Questionable authority of,161.Melish’s,166.Inaccuracy of,212.Maquilla, or Maquinna,79.Marchand’s Voyage,47.Martens, Droit des Gens,117.Martinez at Nootka,80.Matagorda Bay,155.Meares,61.Sailed in the Nootka,77.In the Felice78,95.Memorial to Parliament,82.Log book,97.Mendocino, Cape,27.Furthermost known land,45.Mississippi, sources of the,146.Company,156.Discovered by Hernando de Soto,153.Discovered by Spain,153,197.Explored by British subjects,154.Free navigation of,195.Missouri Fur Company, first establishment of citizens of United States on the west of the Rocky Mountains,23.Monroe, President, declaration of,178.Monson’s, Sir W., Naval Tracts,44.Mountains, Snowy,165.Multnomah River,166.Incorrectly laid down,166.Proposed as a boundary by Spain, in 1819,165,170.Sources,190.Natchitoches,164.National flag,226.Protection of,193.Mercantile,227.Sovereign,228.Mr. Gallatin’s letter,230.Dr. Channing’s pamphlet,228.National ship, Mr. Rush’s view,184.Mr. Buchanan’s view,226.Negotiations in 1818,144.New France, extent westwardly,161,210.New Mexico, extent of,171.Nootka Sound,73.Discovery of,116.British colours hoisted at,79.Delivered up to the British,92.Controversy,119.British settlement,203.Nootka Sound Convention. SeeEscurial.Mr. Pitt’s view,247.North-west Company established,20.Their first settlement west of the Rocky Mountains,20.Occupation, title by,111.Distinct from occupancy,114.Ohio River,159.Okanegan River,24.Onis, Don Louis de,164.Oregon, or Oregan River, so called by Carver,16.Oregon Territory, extent of,17.Pretensions of the United States in 1818,142.First notice of claim,147.Pacific Fur Company,23.Dissolution of,25,192.Not chartered,192.Panuco, the northernmost settlement of Spain on the Gulf of Mexico,154,176.Partition, rule of,261.Patagonians,39.Perez, Juan, voyage,55,116.Entrada de,55.Perouse, La,60.Pichilingue Bay,73.Poletica, Chevalier de,179.Pope Alexander VI., his bull,27.Pre-emption, right of,177.Prescription, title of,124.President Polk’s Message,255.Pretty, Francis,28.Not the author of the Famous Voyage,32.Purchas, Pilgrims of,34.Racoon, sloop of war,25,239.Rio Bravo del Norte,171.Rivers, appendages to territory,173,195.Common use of,126,176,195.Mr. Wheaton on,195.Rocky Mountains,14.Rolls Court,131.Rush, Mr.,180,241,251,253.Russia, establishments on north-west coast of America,60,262.Claims on north-west coast,120.Russian American Company, in 1799,200.Salle, De la,154,197.Santa Fé,170.Sea coast, discovery of,172.Possession of,196.Servitudes, permanent,134.Settlement, title by,122.Jurisdiction of,172.Conterminous,175.Not mere trading stations,202.Not factories,206.Intermixed,218.Priority of,221.Sierra Verde,13,166.Silva, Nuño da, his narrative,28.Schoell’s Traités,90,92,147.Soto, Hernando de, discovered the Mississippi,171.South Carolina, laws of,227.Spain, claims to the north-west coast of America,168.Stow, the Annalist,43.Stowell, Lord, on rivers,106.On discoveries,121,200.Sutil y Mexicana, voyage of,48.Tacoutche-Tesse River, held by Lewis and Clarke to be the Columbia,19,232.Tchiricoff’s voyage,54.Territory in use,221.Texas, boundaries of,171.Thalweg,176.Thomson, Mr. David, the astronomer of the North-west Company, descends the north branch of the Columbia River,21,24,171,233.Determines the latitude of the sources of the Mississippi,146.Tipping, Captain,61,70.Title by Occupation,111.Discovery,115.Sea coast,172.Settlement,124.Prescription,124.Convention,129.Tonquin, ship, destroyed by the Indians,24.Treaty of Utrecht,84,144,148.Paris, of 1803,147.Paris, of 1763,149.Ryswick,157.Washington,173.S. Ildefonso,157,162.The Escurial,86,201.Ghent,141.Family Compact,86,92.Paris, of 1783,133,146,151.Of 1794,146.Treaties terminable by war,135.Sometimes contain acknowledgments of title,136.Ukase of Russia respecting the north-west coast,178.Ulloa, Francisco de,26,54,72.United States, the President’s plan as to the Pacific Ocean,169.Use, innocent,128.Usucaption, title by,124.Utrecht, Treaty of,211.Commissioners under,148.Vancouver, Capt.,18.Instructions,98.Names C. Orford,98.Observes Heceta’s River,100.Vindicated against Mr. Greenhow’s charges,103,107.Vattel on Occupation,173.On Discovery,193.On Prescription,125.Vicinitas of the Roman law,126.Viscaino, Sebastian,54.Wabash River, or Ouabache,156.Washington, Treaty of, cession under,172,180.Object of Spanish concessions,170,237.Wheaton on Discovery,118.Wilkes’, Capt., expedition,74.Willamette, settlement on the,256,259.Webster, Daniel,264.Wolffii Jus Gentium,112.Institutions du Droit,113,121.Woods, Lake of the,145.
Footnotes:
[1]Maldonado’s pretended Voyage bears the date of 1588. In the copy of Mr. Calhoun’s letter, circulated on this side of the Atlantic, it is referred to the year 1528.