| Show TOLD BY AN ANCIENT CHART the columbia river as it was more blore than a cc century naury aeo ago captain james gray of the lurline has ills a facsimile e of curious chart of the mouth of the colombia river made years ago b by captain george vancouver the early L 9 lish navigator navie ator A roost most remarkable fact about bout the chart Is that it shows allows the bortl I 1 c hann elthe one now in use to have been precisely as it is s at the present da day there was the tile same depth of 01 water tj then le YA that there is now from oregon cape a lo 10 lone narrow spit of sand ran rail out high and dry ry at all stages of the tide trees grew on the spit and the indians had bad t their afew air farms farm a there raising abundant crops of vegetables as the white men now do in the tile sand plains about point adams sand island Is at the present day four times as large as shown on oil the vancouver chart but since the completion of the jetty it Is gradually washing away during some great freshet early in the tile century the spit digap disappeared ared and a shoal gradually for ei acro sabe he entrance to the river it was this same ancient chart that the government overn ment engineers took as their guide hi n building the now famous columbia etty T they h ey followed its lines and have brought ht b back tek a hundred years later the same ame conditions which naturally existed when explorer vancouver sailed into the col un rabia in search of the northwest pass age portland oregonians oregonian Ore gonian |
