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In the employ of a firm of Boston traders, Captain Robert Gray returned to the Pacific Coast in 1792. Determined to make important discoveries that had eluded him on an earlier voyage, he cruised up and down the Oregon coast looking intently for any sign of a large river emptying into the sea. Inlets and muddy channels attracted his attention, but one inlet was of particular interest because of its color. After a second observation, the Yankee Captain guided his sturdy vessel across the forbidding bar and into the fresh waters of a great river.
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