The List of Charts and Drawings brought back to England
from Monterey by Broughton in 1793
Andrew David
In three
appendixes to his article “The Journal of a Tour Across the Continent of New
Spain...by Lieut. W.R. Broughton in
the Year 1793” Jim Mockford lists the charts and drawings taken to London from
Captain Vancouver’s expedition, apparently copied by Broughton into his
journal, whose present location is not stated.
The journal is in fact held in the National Maritime Museum to which it
was transferred in 1968.1
Broughton’s journal does not contain the list of drawings and charts given in
Mockford’s article, which unfortunately contains a number of errors as is
apparent from the lists attached to Vancouver’s correspondence now held in The
National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office) in London and reproduced
below.2
The list of charts includes the surveys presented to Vancouver by Bodega
y Quadra in Nootka, including Gray’s survey of the entrance to the Columbia
River, in the exchange of surveys that took place there in 1793 and also the
surveys Vancouver had received a few months earlier from Alcalá Galiano of the
channels and islands between Vancouver Island and the mainland.
In view of these errors the lists are reproduced below.
The charts
No
1 A Chart shewing part of
the Wt
Coast of No America, from the lat 42 30 No & longde
230 30 Et
to lat: 52 15 No and longde
238 03 Et.
No
2 A Chart shewing part of
the Wt
Coast of No America, from lat: 43 00 No, and longde
234 00 Et,
to lat 36 36 No and longde
238 26 Et.
No
3 Port Quadra in the Gulf
of Georgia on an enlarged scale.
No
4 Gray’s Harbour, on
the coast of New Albion on an enlarged scale.
No
5 A Chart shewing part of
the SW coast of New Holland, with the tracks of the Discovery & Chatham:
and a sketch of King George the third’s Sound on an enlarged scale.
No
6 Copy of a Spanish
chart, from the lat 48 20 No and longde
118 31 Wt
of Cadiz to lat: 49 35 No and longde
120 22 Wt
of Cadiz, received from Sr
Quadra [Galiano in 2nd list].
No
7 Copy of a Spanish
chart, from the lat 50 45 No & longitude 130 42 Wt
of Paris, to lat: 55 40 No & longde
138 40 Wt
of Paris, received from Sr
Galiano [Quadra in 2nd list].
No
8 Copy of a Spanish
chart, from the lat 16 00 No and longde
6 00 Et
of St
Blas to the lat 41 30 No and longde
40 00 Wt
of St
Blas, received from Sr
Quadra.
No
9 A sheet containing four
harbours and the entrance of the River Columbia, situated on the Wt coast
of N America, as copied from Charts received from Sr
Quadra.
No
10 Copy of a Chart of the Port of
Bucareli, situated on the Wt
coast of No America, as received from Sr
Quadra.
No
11 Copy of a Chart of Nootka Sound,
as recd
from Sr
Quadra.
No
12 Gray’s Harbour, as recd from
Sr
Quadra
No
13 Port of St Francisco, as recd
from Sr
Quadra.
No
14 The Bay of Monterrey, as recd
from Sr
Quadra.
No
15 Dusky Bay in New Zealand, as
copied from a corect (sic) Sketch of Captain Cook’s, with the termination of
two arms from Apparent Isles; and Facile Harbour, and Anchor Island, as examined
by the Discovery’s & Chatham’s boats.
No
16 A Sketch of the Snares by Lieutt
Broughton.
No
17 Chatham Island by Lieutt
Broughton.
No
18 The River Columbia by Lieutt
Broughton.
No
19 A Sketch of Hergest’s Islands,
discovered by the Daedalus Store Ship, Surveyed by Mr Wm
Gooch, Astronomer.
List of drawings brought back from Monterey by Broughton in January 1793
In The National
Archives there are signed lists of the drawings by Sykes and Humphrys that
William Broughton brought back from Monterey. [The list of drawings by Sykes has
a different numbering to that contained in his album. It is included here
because the numbering agrees with those of his drawings which are numbered.]
No
1 View of part of the SW
coast of New Holland, with Cape Chatham.
No
2 View of the Entrance
into King George the Third’s Sound.
No
3 A Hut, of King George
the Third’s Sound.
No
4 View in Oyster Harbour,
King George the Third’s Sound.
No
5 & 6 Views of the Snares.
No
7 View of the SE Side of
the Island of Woahoo.
No
8 View of Wytiti Bay, on
the South Side of Woahoo.
No
9 View down Wymea River,
Atooi.
No
10 View up Wymea River, Atooi.
No
11 View from an Anchor in Wymea Bay,
Atooi.
No
12 View of a Morai, in Wymea Bay,
Atooi.
No
13 & 14 Views of Onehow.
No
15 View on the So Side of Onehow.
No
16 View of the No Promontory of Cape
Mendoicino, on the Coast of New Albion.
No
17 View at Anchor of part of the
Coast of New Albion.
No
18 View at Anchor of Cape Orford, on
the Coast of New Albion.
No
19 View at the Entrance of the
Straits of Juan de Fuca.
No
20 View of the Entrance into Port
Quadra.
No
21 View in Port Townshend, of the
Land over Port Quadra.
No
22 View of the So Part
of Adty
Inlett.
No
23 View in Port Townshend, of Mount
Baker.
No
24 View in So Part of Adty
Inlett, of Mount Rainier.
No
25 View of Cheslakee’s Village, in
Johnstone’s Straits.
No
26 View of Woody Pt on
the Island of Quadra and Vancouver
No
27 View of Monterey.
By
John Sykes
A list of Views taken on board the Discovery
No
1 A View from the
Anchorage, of the entrance of King George the thirds Sound.
No
2 & 3 Views of the Island of Oparro.
No
4 A View of Point Venus
of the Tents from the Anchoring place in Matavai Bay Otaheite.
No
5 The remains of an
Indian Village in the Gulf of Georgia.
No
6 A View in the Gulf of
Georgia the distant land being the South side of De Fuca’s streights.
No
7 A View of Friendly Cove
in Nootka Sound.
No
8 View of the Entrance of
Nootka Sound & the land adjacent.
No
9 A View of the land from
the North entrance de Fuca as far South as
Mount Olympus.
No
10 A View of Punta Baxo de Arena on
the coast of New Albion.
No
11 A View of Punta de los Reyes &
the Farallons.
No
12 View of the entrance of Columbia
River & the land adjoining.
Mockford should
also have stated that this journal was not seen or
referred to by Kaye Lamb in his Hakluyt Society edition of The Voyage of
George Vancouver.
1 RUSI/NM/132/2.
2 The National Archives, ADM 1/2629. This manuscript contains two lists of charts. The listing below is a copy of the first list. In the second list the names Quadra and Galiano are transposed for charts 6 and 7. A copy of the first list is also held in The National Archives in HO 28/11, which was published with some errors in The Mariner’s Mirror, Vol. X, pp. 82-4. The second list is the correct one since chart 7 is Caamano’s survey, presented to Vancouver by Bodega y Quadra.