Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures: Or, Life in the West. To which is Added a View of the States and Territorial Regions of Our Western Empire: Embracing History, Statistics and Geography, and Descriptions of the Chief Cities of the WestSegner & Condit, 1870 - 775 pages |
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... latitude , lying east of and bordering on the Mississippi River , including , also , the States of Indiana and Mich- igan , and of the whole of our great national domain west of the Mis- sissippi and extending to the Pacific Ocean ...
... latitude , lying east of and bordering on the Mississippi River , including , also , the States of Indiana and Mich- igan , and of the whole of our great national domain west of the Mis- sissippi and extending to the Pacific Ocean ...
Page 82
... latitude of the head of this stream is found to be incorrect . It was not , however , to be ex- pected that the inaccuracy would be so great as to place the actual source an entire degree south of the supposed point . Such , however ...
... latitude of the head of this stream is found to be incorrect . It was not , however , to be ex- pected that the inaccuracy would be so great as to place the actual source an entire degree south of the supposed point . Such , however ...
Page 88
... latitude 30 ° , vegetation becomes marked by a degree of rankness and luxuriance which I have never seen anywhere else . The American forests are generally remarkable for the entire absence of underwood , so that they are easily ...
... latitude 30 ° , vegetation becomes marked by a degree of rankness and luxuriance which I have never seen anywhere else . The American forests are generally remarkable for the entire absence of underwood , so that they are easily ...
Page 91
... latitude 35 ° , all nature became alive . The trees which grew on any little eminence , or which did not spring immediately from the swamp , were covered with foliage ; and at our wooding times , when I rambled through the woods , there ...
... latitude 35 ° , all nature became alive . The trees which grew on any little eminence , or which did not spring immediately from the swamp , were covered with foliage ; and at our wooding times , when I rambled through the woods , there ...
Page 120
... Great Slave Lake , in latitude 60 ° , was at one time the northern boundary of their range ; but of late years , according to the testimony of the natives they have taken possession of the flat limestone districts of Slave 120 THE WEST .
... Great Slave Lake , in latitude 60 ° , was at one time the northern boundary of their range ; but of late years , according to the testimony of the natives they have taken possession of the flat limestone districts of Slave 120 THE WEST .
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