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Family Compact, 207-Proceedings in the National Assembly of France on the Subject,
208-Spain engages to indemnify the British for the Property seized, 205-Further De-
mands of Great Britain - Designs of Pitt against Spanish America, 206-Secret Mediation
of France, through which the Dispute is settled, 209-Convention of October, 1790,
called the Nootka Treaty, 210-Proceedings in Parliament, and Reflections on this Con-
vention, 211.

Vancouver and Broughton arrive on the American Coasts in 1792, and meet with Gray, who
informs them of his Discovery of the Columbia River, 233-The Strait of Fuca surveyed
by Vancouver, Galiano, and Valdes, 238- - Negotiations between Vancouver and Quadra
at Nootka, 243-Vancouver's Injustice to the Americans, 244, 248, 256 - Broughton's Ex-
amination of the Lower Part of the Columbia River, 247-Vancouver's Proceedings at the
Sandwich Islands, 249— He completes the Survey of the North-West Coasts of America.
and returns to England, 255-The Spaniards abandon Nootka, 257- Conclusions with
Regard to the Dispute between Great Britain and Spain, and the Convention of 1790, 258.

Cession of Louisiana by France to the United States, 276-Inquiries as to the true Extent
of Louisiana, 277-Erroneous Supposition that its Limits towards the North had been
fixed by Commissaries agreeably to the Treaty of Utrecht, 281 President Jefferson sends
Lewis and Clarke to examine the Missouri and Columbia, 284-Account of their Expedi-
tion from the Mississippi to the Pacific, 285.

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