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34 Station opposite Astoria, October 24th and ascended the river with most of the crew in two boats, the "Pinnace" and "Cutter," to a point above Washougal, making observations and soundings, and bestowing names upon islands and tribu- tary streams along the way.

Mount Hood Named and Explored. On October 30, 1792, Lieutenant Broughton, while on this expedition up the Columbia, named Mount Hood, which is 11,225 feet in elevation, being the highest Oregon peak. It is in the Cascade

Range, and its summit is about 20 miles from the Columbia River as the crow flies. It was named for Alexander Arthur Hood, afterwards Lord Brinport, of England, a personal friend of Vancouver. For a time it was known among Americans as Mount Washington. The mountain