The River Douglas, also known as the River Asland, is a river in Lancashire in the north west of England. It is a tributary of the River Ribble and has itself two tributaries, the River Tawd and the River Yarrow. The Murray River in Australia. ... Lancashire is a county of England, lying on the Irish Sea. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Inter. ... A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... The River Ribble is a river that runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire, in the North of England. ... The River Tawd flows through Skelmersdale,a Lancashire New Town designed and built predominantly in the mid-1060s to 1980s. ... The River Yarrow is a river in Lancashire. ...
At Tarleton, the Douglas is joined by the Rufford Branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The river rises on Winter Hill and flows for 35 miles through the town of Wigan and onto the Ribble estuary past Tarleton, the last 10 miles or so being tidal. The village of Tarleton is situated in the Lancashire marshlands near Southport, and to the south of Preston. ... The Leeds and Liverpool Canal is a canal in the north of England running from Liverpool, Merseyside to Leeds, West Yorkshire. ...
Douglas returned to Fort Vancouver on September 13, and spent the rest of the month packing seeds and specimens to be sent to England on the Hudson's Bay Company ship departing that fall.
Douglas may have been employing a term already used by other travelers, but his writings are the first recorded appearance of the name by which the range is known today.
Douglas also did not name or precisely identify the particular peak he climbed in present-day Skamania County, but one source suggests that it was 4222-foot Lookout Mountain, some 10 miles north of the river (Green Gold website).
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