Who said Ocean in view oh the joy?

Answer 1

William Clark, of the explorer duo Lewis and Clark, thought that they had reached their goal, the Pacific Ocean, on November 7, 1805. He wrote in his journal "Ocian in view! O! the Joy!" (misspelled).

But he soon learned that what he saw was not the Pacific: it was the wide estuary of the Columbia River, some 20 miles from the ocean itself. Storms then kept them from making it to the actual shore for almost 3 weeks. The failure of any relief ships to arrive meant they spent the winter of 1805-1806 there, near what is now Astoria, Oregon.