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Report of Explorations for a Route for the Pacific Railroad; Near the 38th and 39th Parallels of North Latitude, from the Mouth of the Kansas River, Missouri, to the Sevier Lake, in the Great Basin

Report of Explorations for a Route for the Pacific Railroad; Near the 38th and 39th Parallels of North Latitude, from the Mouth of the Kansas River, Missouri, to the Sevier Lake, in the Great Basin


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...we doubled our teams, and with ten mules, but not without severe labor--detaining us, however, but six hours--pulled up the load of six to the crest of the western bank of Lake fork, ascending 480 feet in forty-one hundredths of a CEBOLLA CREEK. 53 mile. By the line followed by our wagons, it is 1.50 mile from crest to crest of the banks of this creek, but in a right line it is only 2,639 feet, or about half a mile, while the perpendicular descent from the east, as already given, is 935 feet. The most practicable means by which this immense ravine can be passed by a road, will be by ascending one of its b.inks by a heavy grade into the mountains, crossing it by a bridge, and descending the opposite bank--a stupendous labor, for it will be necessary to cut through miles of rocks and to cross large sideravines. But it becomes narrower below the crossing, and proportionally steeper; and Captain Gunnison, after examining it, thought it, perhaps, not impossible, but very difficult to bridge it. Leaving Lake fork we continued along under high bluffs, over very rocky hills with deep intervening gullies, which forced us southward into a valley gorge, which we reached by a sleep ascent, and encamped, after a march of 4.69 miles, under a vertical wall of igneous rocks 100 feet in height, at a beautiful spring of cold water in a fine grassy meadow, through which a creek descends to the river, distant two miles. This little valley is part of a depression some four miles in diameter, like a basin in the high table-land among the mesas, which on all sides enclose it to the eye, although Grand river passes through it, and small streams enter it through deep, wide gorges in all directions. The agreeable and exhilarating effect of the pure mountain air of these elevated reg...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155105147
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 74
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155105141
  • Publisher Date: 06 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 150 gr


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