Poor's Manual of Railroads, Volume 1H.V. & H.W. Poor, 1868 - Railroads |
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... feet below Lake Erie ! Nature had too clearly indicated the great route of commerce for the country not to have it readily recognized as such . As early as 1724 , the Surveyor General of the Colony of New York , Cadwallader Colden ...
... feet below Lake Erie ! Nature had too clearly indicated the great route of commerce for the country not to have it readily recognized as such . As early as 1724 , the Surveyor General of the Colony of New York , Cadwallader Colden ...
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... feet above Lake Michigan . So nicely poised in the interior of the Continent are the Great Lakes , that a depression of their eastern bank only 8 feet below its present level would send their flood of waters - which , forming the ...
... feet above Lake Michigan . So nicely poised in the interior of the Continent are the Great Lakes , that a depression of their eastern bank only 8 feet below its present level would send their flood of waters - which , forming the ...
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... feet in 517 miles ; or at the rate of 10 feet to the mile . The elevation of Omaha above the sea is 968 feet ; of Cheyenne , 6,019 feet . To the latter point the line follows the immediate valley of the Platte and its affluents . From ...
... feet in 517 miles ; or at the rate of 10 feet to the mile . The elevation of Omaha above the sea is 968 feet ; of Cheyenne , 6,019 feet . To the latter point the line follows the immediate valley of the Platte and its affluents . From ...
Page 42
... feet above the sea and about 3,350 feet above Salt Lake , which has an elevation 4,200 feet above the The various summits on the eastern portion of the line are approached by compara- tively easy slopes , involving no objectionable ...
... feet above the sea and about 3,350 feet above Salt Lake , which has an elevation 4,200 feet above the The various summits on the eastern portion of the line are approached by compara- tively easy slopes , involving no objectionable ...
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... feet to the mile . The soil on the greater part of the line forms an admirable road bed . The river , after leaving the mountains , has very few affluents , the only considerable bridges for this distance being one over the Loup Fork ...
... feet to the mile . The soil on the greater part of the line forms an admirable road bed . The river , after leaving the mountains , has very few affluents , the only considerable bridges for this distance being one over the Loup Fork ...
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