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Title: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: United States. War Dept Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Subjects: Pacific railroads Discoveries in geography Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer (etc.)
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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iles. On the evening of the 5th he reached the Snake river and encamped on its banks. On account of Lieutenant Mullans route having kept at a distance from the river, towardsthe north, and along the summits of the dividing spurs, the country in the direction of theriver appeared, both to him and Mr. Tinkham, to be only a mass of wooded mountains; yetthere is some pi-obability that a large level valley might exist, and be quite hidden from theroutes of both, a distance of twenty or thirty miles. The general direction of the branchesalso indicates a great depression near the principal forks and east of the most westerly woodedridge, at which their routes converge and come out upon the rolling prairie or plain of theColumbia. At its mouth the Koos-kobs-kia is nearly two hundred yards wide, with high bluffs, anddestitute of timber; the water of a deep sea-green color and very deep, the banks showing arise of ten or fifteen feet at the high stage of water above that of October. Seven miles
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