There was no other important point and he said: "This induced me to consider the above point as the cape Gregory of Captain Cook, with a probability of its being also the cape Blanco of D'Aguilar, if land hereabouts the latter ever saw." Vancouver finished his observations for the day by expressing a doubt that Cook saw Cape Blanco or any other cape south of Cape Gregory on March 12, 1778, and stated that it was fair to presume that what Cook saw was an inland mountain.
Notwithstanding all these facts the name Cape Blanco has persisted for the western cape of Oregon, even though it may not have originally been applied to it, and Vancouver's name, Cape Orford, has fallen into disuse and has been decided against by the United States Geographic Board. Part of the name is still in use in Port Orford, which is just south of the cape.
Cape Alva, Clallam County, Washington, is the most westerly point in continental United States, with a longitude of 124° 44' 5". It is in approximate latitude 48° 10'. It is more than 10' of longitude further west than Cape Blanco.
Authorities are not unanimous as to the color of Cape Blanco, but George Davidson, whose opinion carries great weight, states in the Coast Pilot for 1869 that the rocks were of a dull white appearance but bright when the sun shone on them. However, this characteristic is probably more or less true of other capes in the neighborhood.
Cape Falcon, Tillamook County. Cape Falcon is the next cape south of Arch Cape, and has been known in the past as False Tillamook Head, presumably because navigators from the south mistook it for the real Tillamook Head, which lies further north. On August 18, 1775, Captain Bruno Heceta, while cruising along the north Pacific Coast discovered a cape in latitude 45° 43' north and named it Cape Falcon. While this is not far from the correct location of what we now know as Cape Falcon,
