| America North, Henry Youle Hind - 1863 - 858 pages
...thousand miles. The average altitude of the highest part of the Rocky Mountains is 12,000 feet ; in lat. 51°, the forest extends to the altitude of 7,000...Rocky Mountains, about 800 miles, and averages from 80 to 100 miles in breadth. The North Saskatchewan flows through this Fertile Belt, in a valley varying... | |
| Henry Youle Hind, Thomas C. Keefer, John George Hodgins, Charles Robb, Moses Henry Perley, William Murray - 1864 - 848 pages
...thousand miles. The average altitude of the highest part of the Bocky Mountains is 12,000 feet; in lat. 51°, the forest extends to the altitude of 7,000...stretches from the Lake of the Woods to the foot of the Bocky Mountains, about 800* miles, and averages from 80 to 100 miles in breadth. The North Saskatchewan... | |
| 1864 - 496 pages
...measured along the centre of the fertile belt uf land which crosses the hasin of the Winnipeg, from the Lake of the Woods to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, of about 760 miles. West of the forks of the Saskatchewan to the Rocky Mountains, about 800 miles —... | |
| Sir William Howard Russell - 1865 - 384 pages
...of arable soil, partly in the form of rich, open prairie, partly covered with groves of aspen, which stretches from the Lake of the Woods to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, averages 80 to 100 miles in breadth." Dr. James Hector, and all the explorers, agree in their descriptions... | |
| Henry Youle Hind - 1868 - 872 pages
...thousand miles. The average altitude of the highest part of the Rocky Mountains is 12,000 feet ; in lat. 51°, the forest extends to the altitude of 7,000...groves of aspen; it stretches from the Lake of the W&ods to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, about 800 miles, and averages from 80 to 100 miles in breadth.... | |
| 1869 - 744 pages
...plain of the Saskatchewan — the best access to which is shown to be in our own hands — extends from the Lake of the Woods to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, presenting one thousand miles of the easiest ground in the world lor the construction of a railroad,... | |
| william harison ainsworth - 1869 - 786 pages
...plain of the Saskatchewan — the best access to which is shown to be in our own hands — extends from the Lake of the Woods to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, presenting one thousand miles of the easiest ground in the world lor the construction of a railroad,... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1871 - 866 pages
...has only been carried out across the Rocky Mountains to the Golf of Georgia, should be completed from the Lake of the Woods to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. 5| In this Her Majesty's Government concur, and will be ready to appoint a Commission for the purpose... | |
| 1871 - 862 pages
...has only been carried out across the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Georgia, should be completed from the Lake of the Woods to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. <i In this Her Majesty's Government concur , and will be ready to appoint a Commission for the purpose... | |
| Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1871 - 866 pages
...has only been carried out across the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Georgia, should be completed from the Lake of the Woods to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. f In this Her Majesty's Government concur , and will be ready to appoint a Commission for the purpose... | |
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