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Title	Map of Columbia River from its mouth to Fort Vancouver at 17 measures of 10,000 meters from the sea.. Carte du Rio Colombia depuis son embouchure jusqu'au Fort Vancouver a 17 Myriametres de la mer, (1844)
Creator	Duflot de Mofras, Eugene, 1810-1884.
Date.Original	1844
Publisher	[Paris : Arthus Bertrand, 1844]
Description	1 map : col. ; 23 x 41 cm. From: Exploration du territoire de l'Oregon, des Californies et de la mer Vermeille, executee pendant les annees 1840, 1841 et 1842, par M. Duflot de Mofras, [Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1844] Plate no. 18. Vice Consul for France in the early 1840s, M. Eugene Duflot de Mofras investigated California and the Pacific Coast for his country. France was still interested in the area, and it was Duflot de Mofras' job to report the possibility of setting up a post in the region. During his journeys he traveled through California (Monterrey, San Diego, the Ross Settlement and others) as well as Fort Vancouver and the Columbia River. This steel-engraved, hand-colored map, drawn for his two volume report, charts the course of the Columbia River. Duflot de Mofras was influential in the idea that the Columbia River was not suitable for an ocean port. In fact, he described the sand bar near Cape Disappointment as a "hideous spectacle...with foam cloaking the horizon far out at sea as if to form an insurmountable barrier to ships entering or leaving the river."
Subject	Washington (State)--Rivers--Maps; Columbia River--Maps
Type	Image
Genre	Maps; River charts
Location Depicted	United States--Washington (Terr.)--Columbia River
Rights Notes	No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was published prior to 1923.
Identifier	wsu132; G4242.C62 1844.D83
Holding Institution	Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
Digitization	Original maps were scanned in color at 600 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.4 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries.
Format	image/jpg2000
Contributors	Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Language	French
Source	Is found as Map of Columbia River from its mouth to Fort Vancouver at 17 measures of 10,000 meters from the sea, 1844. G4242.C62 1844.D83 at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc

Map of Columbia River from its mouth to Fort Vancouver at 17 measures of 10,000 meters from the sea.. Carte du Rio Colombia depuis son embouchure jusqu'au Fort Vancouver a 17 Myriametres de la mer, (1844)

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