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Twenty Years Before the Mast.
various ships. The Porpoise was to survey Hood’s Canal; the boats of the Vincennes were to survey the rivers and bays in the vicinity; a land party was sent to
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explore the interior, and another was assigned to the Cascade Mountains.
Your humble servant was left, with others, to establish the observatory. This was done near a brook, abreast
