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... Romanoff , of the National Party , came to power in Russia in 1613 the wild Cossacks had already begun to roam over the Siberian steppes and plains in search of walrus ivory , gold and furs . Fossil ivory from the HISTORICAL SKETCH . 13.
... Romanoff , of the National Party , came to power in Russia in 1613 the wild Cossacks had already begun to roam over the Siberian steppes and plains in search of walrus ivory , gold and furs . Fossil ivory from the HISTORICAL SKETCH . 13.
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Washington (State). ivory , gold and furs . Fossil ivory from the tusks of the extinct . mammoth was discovered in 1639 along the banks of the rivers and coasts of the Pacific . From 1650 to 1700 the Russians had explored the coast of ...
Washington (State). ivory , gold and furs . Fossil ivory from the tusks of the extinct . mammoth was discovered in 1639 along the banks of the rivers and coasts of the Pacific . From 1650 to 1700 the Russians had explored the coast of ...
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... gold and silver . On the isthmus he had captured a mule train loaded with precious metals being transported from Peru , the land conquered by Piz- zaro . It was this booty that gave him wealth , and the wealth gave him fame . While on ...
... gold and silver . On the isthmus he had captured a mule train loaded with precious metals being transported from Peru , the land conquered by Piz- zaro . It was this booty that gave him wealth , and the wealth gave him fame . While on ...
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... gold and silver . His name of the river was in 1812 immortalized in Bryant's Thanatopsis : " Where rolls the Oregon , and hears no sound Save his own dashings - yet the dead are there . " A VIEW OF EVERETT FARBOR AND CITY . The first 32 ...
... gold and silver . His name of the river was in 1812 immortalized in Bryant's Thanatopsis : " Where rolls the Oregon , and hears no sound Save his own dashings - yet the dead are there . " A VIEW OF EVERETT FARBOR AND CITY . The first 32 ...
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... gold , nor was he an American . Alexander Mackenzie was a Canadian fur hunter . His first attempt to reach the Pa- cific took him northward to the Arctic , and though disappointed , he had added to the sum of human knowledge by ...
... gold , nor was he an American . Alexander Mackenzie was a Canadian fur hunter . His first attempt to reach the Pa- cific took him northward to the Arctic , and though disappointed , he had added to the sum of human knowledge by ...
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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...