and seemed to announce a termination of the river." Broughton was somewhere near the mouth of the Willamette River when he had this view of Mount Hood, and the description which he gave Vancouver would be difficult to improve upon. The next day, while near Point Vancouver, Broughton saw the mountain again, and Vancouver wrote as follows; "The same remarkable mountain that had been seen from Belle Vue point, again presented itself, bearing at this station S. 67 E.; and though the party were now nearer to it by 7 leagues, yet its lofty summit was scarcely more distinct across the intervening land which was more than moderately elevated. Mr. Broughton honored it with Lord Hood's name; its appearance was magnificent; and it was clothed with snow from its summit, as low down as the high land, by which it was intercepted, rendered it visible." Here Broughton's report shows him to be a keen observer and a judge of natural beauty. Professor Edmond S. Meany, in his Vancouver's Discovery of Puget Sound, has taken pains to present a suitable picture of Lord Hood, and the compiler hereof cannot do better than to paraphrase from Professor Meany's notes. The Lord Hood, to whom Vancouver referred, was Samuel Hood, born December 12, 1724, and entered the Royal Navy as a captain's servant in 1741. As the result of his own efforts coupled with the fact that he served under splendid officers he rose to the rank of lieutenant in 1746, and after experiencing considerable service in America and elsewhere, reached post rank on the Lively on July 22, 1756, but just at his promotion, he was returned to England and paid off. He was forced to resort to temporary commands for a time, but was so successful in these that he was reinstated in regular line, and served in a number of places with no remarkable distinction, but always satisfactorily, until he was practically retired in 1778 as Commissioner at Portsmouth and Governor of the Naval Academy. The king visited Portsmouth and created him a baronet, and Hood lived quietly enough when to the surprise of everybody in 1780, he was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral of the blue, and was sent with a squadron to reinforce Rodney in the West Indies. Hood remained second in command in American waters until the peace of 1783, and took part in nearly all the stirring engagements that marked the close of the War for Independence. As a reward for his services he was on September 12, 1782, raised to the Irish peerage as Baron Hood of Catherington, Hampshire. This was before his return to England. On his return he was given other honors, and made vice-admiral of the blue. In 1788 he was made a member of the Board of Admiralty under the Earl of Chatham, and while in this position signed the original instructions for Vancouver's voyage. But Hood's career did not end here. He served in the Mediterranean during the French Revolution. Nelson was a captain under him, and praised his vigor of mind and judgment. Sir William Hotham wrote that he never saw an officer of more intrepid courage or warmer zeal. Before his recall he was elected an Elder Brother of Trinity House in March, 1795, and a little later was made an admiral. In 1796 he was appointed governor of Greenwich Hospital and created Viscount Hood in the peerage of Great Britain. His remarkable mind and body made him a noted man, and shortly before he died, on January 27, 1816, at the great age of 92, he received the Grand Cross of the Bath. Mount Hood is an unusual mountain, and none can say but that it was named for an unusual man. Occasional statements to the effect
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