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... field of the Pacific northwest , and eventually to control a chain of trading posts across the con- tinent . He organized the Pacific Fur Company and treated his partners with rare confidence and generosity . One party was sent by sea ...
... field of the Pacific northwest , and eventually to control a chain of trading posts across the con- tinent . He organized the Pacific Fur Company and treated his partners with rare confidence and generosity . One party was sent by sea ...
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... field . Their representatives arrived at the mouth of the Columbia only a few days after Astoria had been established . They then re- coiled to the interior and began the construction of forts and trading posts . They later bought ...
... field . Their representatives arrived at the mouth of the Columbia only a few days after Astoria had been established . They then re- coiled to the interior and began the construction of forts and trading posts . They later bought ...
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... fields of coal with which our state is so well supplied . These fields of coal , several in number , extending from ... field , but had a somewhat different history , in that the coal plants grew upon the shores of a great lake of that ...
... fields of coal with which our state is so well supplied . These fields of coal , several in number , extending from ... field , but had a somewhat different history , in that the coal plants grew upon the shores of a great lake of that ...
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... fields are several in number , and unlike those of Pennsylvania , seem never to have been connected , but were of distinct origin . Each seems to have been formed independ- ently of the others , although in the character of coal and in ...
... fields are several in number , and unlike those of Pennsylvania , seem never to have been connected , but were of distinct origin . Each seems to have been formed independ- ently of the others , although in the character of coal and in ...
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... field — the China Mutual , the Glen , the Kosmos , and the Globe . Still another , the Great Northern , is in sight . These companies are using ships of the largest size , and of as good character as ships anywhere . They are speedy and ...
... field — the China Mutual , the Glen , the Kosmos , and the Globe . Still another , the Great Northern , is in sight . These companies are using ships of the largest size , and of as good character as ships anywhere . They are speedy and ...
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Page 94 - It will not be doubted that, with reference either to individual or national welfare, agriculture is of primary importance. In proportion as nations advance in population and other circumstances of maturity, this truth becomes more apparent, and renders the cultivation of the soil more and more an object of public patronage. Institutions for promoting it grow up, supported by the public purse ; and to what object can it be dedicated with greater propriety...
Page 26 - E. ; the round snowy mountain, now forming its southern extremity, and which, after my friend Rear Admiral Rainier, I distinguished by the name of MOUNT RAINIER, bore N.
Page 32 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 25 - I was thoroughly convinced, as were also most persons of observation on board, that we could not possibly have passed any safe navigable opening, harbor, or place of security for shipping, on this coast...
Page 25 - Meares's description of the coast south of this promontory, I was at first induced to believe it to be...
Page 94 - Among the means which have been employed to this end none have been attended with greater success than the establishment of boards (composed of proper characters) charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled by premiums and small pecuniary aids to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement.
Page 33 - I now mixed up some vermilion in melted grease, and inscribed, in large characters, on the South-East face of the rock on which we had slept last night, this brief memorial - 'Alexander Mackenzie, from Canada, by land, the twenty-second of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three.
Page 26 - Gulph of Georgia, and the continent binding the said gulph, and extending southward to the 45th degree of north latitude, with that of New Georgia, in honor of His present Majesty. This branch of Admiralty inlet obtained the name of Possession Sound; its western arm, after Vice Admiral Sir Alan Gardner, I distinguished by the name of Port Gardner [now called Saratoga Passage], and its smaller or eastern one by that of Port Susan.
Page 21 - It is in this very latitude where we now were, that geographers have placed the pretended strait of Juan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it; nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed.
Page 143 - By this bill the government of the university is vested in a board of regents...