Cascade Inlet. It must be a rock which will meet the
following conditions: an abandoned village site near-by; a
rock suitable for defence and with a sheer face on the
south-east side; near an inlet on which is an old Indian
village; a southerly exposure for at least three miles; and
with a cove lying north-east about three miles distant.

The rock which Captain Bishop has located complies
exactly with each of these requirements. He has therefore
called it ‘“Mackenzie’s Rock,’ as being beyond doubt the
rock on which the explorer wrote with a mixture of ver-
milion and grease those words, his “ brief memorial”
known to every school boy in the country: “Alexander
Mackenzie from Canada by land the twenty-second of
July one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.”
His conclusion has been concurred in by the Land Depart-
ment of British Columbia, the British Columbia Historical
Association, and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board
of Canada. Our author's work has also been checked by
another surveyor, Mr. J. P. Forde, Resident Engineer of
the Public Works Department in Victoria, on the ground
and his conclusion affirmed and accepted.

That ““Mackenzie’s Rock’’ has been definitely identi-
fied will be the opinion of every one who carefully reads
the attached paper (which is his official report on the
subject) and who studies the route as shown on the map
with the aid of Mackenzie’s own account.

The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
regards this as one of the most important identifications
that has been made in connection with the story of Western
Canada. It has therefore determined to give Captain
Bishop’s paper a wide publicity by publishing it as a
memoir.

In conclusion I cannot do better than quote the
author's words in an address delivered in Victoria, B.C.,
upon this subject. Emphasizing the importance of this
apparently trivial matter he says:

““There are two important reasons. One is that it
marks the first crossing of the continent. All good Canad-
ians are well aware of this, but the fact is apparently by
no means universally realized. Fiske, in “The Discovery
of America,’ solemnly announces that the continent was
first crossed by Lewis and Clark, whose expedition reached
the Columbia some twelve years later, when the United
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