[242] As to the discovery of the Rocky Mountains, see vol. v, Part I of Historical Geography of the British Colonies, p. 214 and note.

[243] Correspondence relative to the negotiation of the question of the disputed right to the Oregon Territory on the North-West coast of America subsequent to the Treaty of Washington of August 9, 1842. Presented to Parliament in 1846, p. 39.

[244] A good account of the negotiations is in a Historical Note, 1818-46, included in a Blue Book of 1873, C.-692, North America, No. 5 (1873).

[245] The boundaries of British Columbia had been fixed by an Imperial Act of 1863.

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