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300 It has been a popular tale that Lewis and Clark discovered the Falls of the Multnomah, but their records as above, disprove this fallacy.

With the passing of Lewis and Clark, the name of the river changed from Multnomah to Willamette, for the next authorities, Gabriel Franchere, Alexander Ross and Ross Cox, call it the Willamette.

In his "Narrative," published at Montreal in 1820, Franchere gives us the best and earliest record of the activities of the Pacific Fur Company on the Willamette. Ross Cox follows with his "Adventures on the Columbia River" in 1831, while Alexander Ross' "Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River" was not published until 1849.

From Franchere we glean more facts than from either of the others. The first record regarding the Willamette