History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark: To the Sources of the Missouri River, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, Performed During the Years 1804-5-6, by Order of the Government of the United States, Том 2F. P. Harper, 1893 - Всего страниц: 1364 |
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... species of cot- tonwood [ Populus angustifolia ] , with a leaf like that of the wild cherry . After halting at twelve o'clock for dinner , they ascended the plain , and at five o'clock reached the camp through the rain , which had ...
... species of cot- tonwood [ Populus angustifolia ] , with a leaf like that of the wild cherry . After halting at twelve o'clock for dinner , they ascended the plain , and at five o'clock reached the camp through the rain , which had ...
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... species , Say's flycatcher , Tyrannus verticalis , are found in this region . The Codex does not describe , but no doubt the text is right , as Lewis knew the kingbird well in Virginia , where it is commonly called bee - martin . 362 ...
... species , Say's flycatcher , Tyrannus verticalis , are found in this region . The Codex does not describe , but no doubt the text is right , as Lewis knew the kingbird well in Virginia , where it is commonly called bee - martin . 362 ...
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... species . The first is about nine inches long , of a white color , round in shape ; the mouth is beset both above and below with a rim of fine sharp teeth , the eye moderately large , the pupil dark , the iris narrow , and of a ...
... species . The first is about nine inches long , of a white color , round in shape ; the mouth is beset both above and below with a rim of fine sharp teeth , the eye moderately large , the pupil dark , the iris narrow , and of a ...
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... species . Of the first kind we had seen a few before we reached Maria's river ; but had found none of the last before we caught them in the Missouri above its junction with that river . The white cat [ -fish , Ictalurus punctatus ] ...
... species . Of the first kind we had seen a few before we reached Maria's river ; but had found none of the last before we caught them in the Missouri above its junction with that river . The white cat [ -fish , Ictalurus punctatus ] ...
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... SPECIES OF POPULUS . mountains , which are now completely covered with snow . Their general course is from S.E. to N. of N.W. , and they seem to consist of several ranges which successively rise above each other , till the most distant ...
... SPECIES OF POPULUS . mountains , which are now completely covered with snow . Their general course is from S.E. to N. of N.W. , and they seem to consist of several ranges which successively rise above each other , till the most distant ...
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15 miles antelopes baggage bank beaver bend berries boat branch buffalo called Cameahwait camp canoes Captain Clark Captain Lewis channel chief Chinookan Clark G Clatsop cliffs codex Columbia Columbia river Continental Divide continued course covered crossed deer distance Drewyer eight Expedition falls feet fish fork of Salmon formed FORT CLATSOP four miles Gass grass halted head hills horses hunt hunters inches Indians Jefferson Jefferson river killed Kooskooskee land Lemhi Lemhi river Lewis and Clark Lewis F low grounds main party miles further Missouri morning moun mouth nearly night o'clock pine plain portage Prairie prickly-pear proceeded procured rain rapid reached returned rocks Rocky mountains route Salishan Salmon river sent Shoshone side six miles skins small islands Snake Snake Indians soon southwest species stream tains three miles timber to-day tribes valley village yards wide yesterday
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Стр. 751 - Small as this stock is I prise it highly; and thank providence for directing the whale to us; and think him much more kind to us than he was to jonah, having Sent this Monster to be Swallowed by us in Sted of Swallowing of us as Jonah's...
Стр. 712 - The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings.
Стр. 647 - He landed before five houses close to each other, but no one appeared, and the doors, which were of mat, were closed. He went towards one of them with a pipe in his hand, and pushing aside the mat entered the lodge, where he found thirty-two persons, chiefly men, and women, with a few children, all in the greatest consternation;" some hanging down their heads, others crying and wringing their hands.
Стр. 771 - At each end also are pedestals, formed of the same solid piece, on which are placed strange grotesque figures of men or animals, rising sometimes to the height of five feet, and composed of small pieces of wood, firmly united, with great ingenuity, by inlaying and mortising, without a spike of any kind. The paddle is usually from four feet and a half to five feet in length, the handle being thick for one...
Стр. 377 - ... only dependence for a friendly negociation with the Snake Indians on whom we depend for horses to assist us in our portage from the Missouri to the columbia River.
Стр. 776 - ... is not attended with pain, but the impression is deep and permanent. The heads of the children, when they are released from the bandage, are not more than two inches thick about the upper edge of the forehead, and still thinner above ; nor with all its efforts can nature ever restore its shape, the heads of grown persons being often in a straight line from the nose to the top of the forehead.
Стр. 489 - ... the other two, an elderly woman and a little girl, seeing we were too near for them to escape, sat on the ground, and holding down their heads seemed as if reconciled to the death which they supposed awaited them. The same habit of holding down the head and inviting the enemy to strike, when all chance of escape is gone, is preserved in Egypt to this day.
Стр. 513 - This day I completed my thirty-first year, and conceived that I had in all human probability now existed about half the period which I am to remain in this Sublunary world. I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little, indeed, to further the happiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding generation.
Стр. 510 - Glad of an opportunity of being able to converse more intelligibly, Sacajawea was sent for; she came into the tent, sat down, and was beginning to interpret, when, in the person of Cameahwait, she recognized her brother. She instantly jumped up, and ran and embraced him, throwing over him her blanket, and weeping profusely.
Стр. 766 - ... eighteen feet. They are hollowed at the top, so as to receive the ends of a round beam or pole stretching from one to the other, and forming the upper point of the roof for the whole extent of the building. On each side of this range is placed another, which forms the eaves of the house, and is about...