Crossword-Solution: GOLETAS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

About half way through Queen Charlotte Sound, and we pass through a narrow channel, twenty-two miles long, named Goletas Channel.

Near the exit from Goletas Channel, but by another passage, now seldom used, is where the United States man-of-war "Suwanee" was wrecked, on a submerged rock, in July, 1869, when the inland passage was not so well known by pilots as it is now.

Introduccion al Relacion del Viage hecho por las Goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el año de 1792.) The Bull of Pope Alexander VI., as is well known, gave to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain all the New World to the westward of a meridian line drawn a hundred leagues west of the Azores.

Here, in 1802, Navarrete published, as a preface to the _Relacion del Viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana_, a résumé of Spanish discoveries on the Californian and Northwest coasts, that has been much cited in the English-American disputes about the Oregon boundary.

Not only is the central part occupied by a brackish-water lake on which small _goletas_ or schooners and steamers can ply, but through the level plains around flow innumerable rivers, most of which are navigable for the greater part of their length.