account of this battle see Pioneer History of Coos and

Curry Counties, chapter III, which consists of a state- ment by Captain J. M . Kirkpatrick.

BAYOCEAN, Tillamook County. This place is on the long neck of land lying between Tillamook Bay and Pa- cific Ocean. It was named in 1907 by the Potter-Chapin Realty Company of Portland, which established it as a summer resort, and named it because of its proximity to the two features mentioned.

BAYS. The important bays and harbors of the Pa- cific Ocean in Oregon, from north to south, are:

It is an interesting fact that while most of the capes and headlands of Oregon were discovered and named before Lewis and Clark arrived, few of the harbors had been seen by white men up to that time.

It is possible that in 1603 Martin de Aguilar discov- ered the mouth of Coos Bay and mistook it for a river. This matter is discussed under the name CAPE BLANCO in this series of notes. On August 17, 1775, Captain Bruno Heceta anchored off the mouth of the Columbia River, the entrance to which he gave the name of As- sumption Bay. Although the currents lead him to be- lieve he was near a river, he did not make the entrance, and thus lost the honor of discovering the Columbia. He named the north cape of the entrance Cape San Roque and the south Cape Frondoso, now Point Adams.

John Meares was the next explorer to make any im- portant mention of Oregon bays and harbors. For de- tails of Meares' voyage off the Oregon coast see the in-