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 Mount St. Helens. from Exposition Grounds, Portland.

Spaniards had been engaged in Pacific Coast exploration, and the English had been imitating and antagonizing them for about 200 years. Prominent among the Spanish explorers were Magellan, Balboa, Ulloa, and Heceta, while the English were represented by the well-known Sir Francis Drake, Captain Cook, Meares, and Vancouver. The Russians, who came to the Northwest by way of Siberia, have a worthy representative in Bering. The rivalry between Spain and Great Britain reached an acute stage in 1789-90 at Nootka sound and culminated in the Nootka treaty. The explorers of these various nations gave names to a great many points—capes, mountains bays, islands, etc.—in the Northwest, which remain in use to-day.

After the close of the War of the Revolution the United States took a part in Northwestern exploration and trade