You will please to take the course of the river, and calculate distances by time, noting rivers, creeks, highlands, prairies, islands* rapids... Publication - Page 31936Full view - About this book
| 1814 - 558 pages
...substance as follows : • , " You will please to take the course of the river, and calculate dia* tancos by time, noting rivers, creeks, highlands, prairies,...mines, quarries, timber, water, soil, Indian villages, anrt settlements, iu a diary to comprehend reflections on the winds and "weather, ll is interesting... | |
| 1814 - 556 pages
...instructions were in substance as follows : " You will please to take the course of the river, and caleulate distances by time, noting rivers, creeks, highlands,...timber, water, soil, Indian villages, and settlements, ia a diary l0 comprehend reflections on the winds and weather. It is interesting to government to be... | |
| 1814 - 564 pages
...in substance as follows: " You will please to take the course of the river, and calculate dietauces by time, noting rivers, creeks, highlands, prairies,...quarries, timber, water, soil, Indian villages, and settlemcuts, in a diary to compreheud reflections on the winds and weather. It is interesting to government... | |
| Sports - 1901 - 934 pages
...instructions given to Lieutenant Pike were prepared by General 'Wilkinson, and approved by the President. He was ordered "to take the course of the river, and...time, noting rivers, creeks, highlands, prairies, rapids, islands, shoals, mines, quarries, timber, water, soil. Indian villages and settlements, in... | |
| Archives - 1977 - 614 pages
...those received by Pike just before beginning his Mississippi River expedition: "You will be pleased to take the course of the River and calculate distances...islands, rapids, shoals, mines, Quarries, timber, water [sic], soil, Indian Villages and Settlements, in a Diary to comprehend reflections on the wind and... | |
| Patricia Calvert - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 100 pages
...up the Mississippi with (ill possible diligence . . . noting rivers, creeks, Highlands, I'rairies, Islands, rapids, shoals, mines, Quarries, Timber, water, soil, Indian Villages and Settlements, in a dian'. —Letter to Zebulon Pike, July 30, 1805, from James Wilkinson The newlyweds began married life... | |
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