 | Meriwether Lewis - Columbia River - 1902 - 440 pages
...practicable water - communication across the continent, for the purposes of commerce. "Beginning at the month of the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude...remarkable points on the river, and especially at the months of rivers, at rapids, at islands, and other places and objects distinguished by such natural... | |
 | Olin Dunbar Wheeler - Americana - 1904 - 428 pages
...Oregan, Colorado, or any other river, may oiler the most direct and practicable water-communication across the continent for the purposes of commerce....and longitude at all remarkable points on the river. The interesting points of the portage between the heads of the Missouri, and of the water offering... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1904 - 808 pages
...his remarkable letter of instructions to Captain Lewis (June 20, 1803), the President desires that, "Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri. you will take observations of latitude & íongítude, at all remarkable points on the river, & especially at the mouths of rivers, at rapids,... | |
 | Samuel Storrs Howe, Theodore Sutton Parvin, Frederick Lloyd, Sanford W. Huff, Charles Aldrich, Edgar Rubey Harlan - Iowa - 1923 - 670 pages
...[sic], Colorado, or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicahle water-communication across the continent, for the purposes of commerce...."Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take ohservations of latitude and longitude, at all remarkahle points on the river, and especially at the... | |
 | Doane Robinson - South Dakota - 1925 - 1020 pages
...such principal streams of it, * * * as may offer the most direct and practicable water-Communication across the continent for the purposes of commerce." "Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri take observations of latitude and longitude at all remarkable points. * * * of a durable kind as that... | |
 | South Dakota - 1918 - 630 pages
...such principal streams of it, * * * as may offer the most direct and practicable waterCommunication across the continent for the purposes of commerce." "Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri take observations of latitude and longitude at all remarkable points * * * of a durable kind as that... | |
 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - History - 1971 - 1530 pages
...water of the Pacific Ocean may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce. Beginning...and longitude at all remarkable points on the river. . . . Your observations are to be taken with great pains and accuracy. . . . Other objects worthy of... | |
 | Elliott Coues - 1979 - 506 pages
...[sic], Colorado, or any nther river, may offer the most direct and practicable water-communication across the continent, for the purposes of commerce....at the mouths of rivers, at rapids, at islands, and nther places and objects distinguished by such natural marks and characters, of a durable kind, as... | |
 | Paul Russell Cutright - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 548 pages
...waters of the Pacific Ocean, may offer the most direct fr practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce. . . . Beginning...the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude & longitude, at all remarhable points on the river" (VII, 248) . For a man who in his whole life had... | |
 | Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer, Scholastic Professional Books - Education - 1997 - 68 pages
...river may offer the most direct & practicable watercommunication across the continent for the purpose of commerce. Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude & longitude, at all remarkable points on the river, & especially at the mouths of rivers, at rapids,... | |
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Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude and longitude at all remarkable points on the river, & especially at the mouths of rivers, at rapids, at islands & other places & objects distinguished by such natural marks... 
