Address on the Subject of a Surveying and Exploring Expedition to the Pacific Ocean and South Seas: Delivered in the Hall of Representatives on the Evening of April 3, 1836Harper and Bros., 1836 - 300 páginas |
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... dangerous shoals and sand - banks , had made scientific observations to enable the sailor to ascertain his course ... dangers between him and his contemplated result ; or , if he had , could he wait for their removal ? At this time there ...
... dangerous shoals and sand - banks , had made scientific observations to enable the sailor to ascertain his course ... dangers between him and his contemplated result ; or , if he had , could he wait for their removal ? At this time there ...
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... danger , which nothing but a constant exposure to appalling hazards can ever give . To pos- sess this quality , one should be , in the language of Byron , “ a child of the sea ; " and it is only necessary to hear one of our cwn hardy ...
... danger , which nothing but a constant exposure to appalling hazards can ever give . To pos- sess this quality , one should be , in the language of Byron , “ a child of the sea ; " and it is only necessary to hear one of our cwn hardy ...
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... dangers from which such an expedition would have saved them , and their memorials were accordingly strong in its favour . Other memorials proceeded from the legislatures of New York , Maryland , Virginia , and North Carolina ; and their ...
... dangers from which such an expedition would have saved them , and their memorials were accordingly strong in its favour . Other memorials proceeded from the legislatures of New York , Maryland , Virginia , and North Carolina ; and their ...
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... dangers , were constantly encountered , and their situation . noted down in the log - books and journals of vessels as they chanced to fall in their way . On their return to the United States , these discoveries generally formed a ...
... dangers , were constantly encountered , and their situation . noted down in the log - books and journals of vessels as they chanced to fall in their way . On their return to the United States , these discoveries generally formed a ...
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... dangers ? There are none to be found , for none exist . And yet have we no trade there ? We speak not for others , but for ourselves . " From this port the following vessels have been , or now are , employed in procuring beche - le ...
... dangers ? There are none to be found , for none exist . And yet have we no trade there ? We speak not for others , but for ourselves . " From this port the following vessels have been , or now are , employed in procuring beche - le ...
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Página 7 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold; that they are at the antipodes,- and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland...
Página 15 - Westward the course of empire takes its way. The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 78 - Several copies of these as well as of your other notes, should be made at leisure times & put into the care of the most trustworthy of your attendants, to guard by multiplying them against the accidental losses to which they will be exposed. A further guard would be that one of these copies be written on the paper of the birch, as less liable to injury from damp than common paper.
Página 76 - Your situation as Secretary of the President of the United States has made you acquainted with the objects of my confidential message of Jan. 18, 1803 to the legislature: you have seen the act they passed, which, tho' expressed in general terms, was meant to sanction those objects, and you are appointed to carry them into execution.
Página 81 - ... and return. In the loss of yourselves we should lose also the information you will have acquired. By returning safely with that, you may enable us to renew the essay with better calculated means. To your own discretion, therefore, must be left the degree of danger you may risk, and the point at which you should decline ; ( p.
Página 82 - Should you find it safe to return by the way you go, after sending two of your party round by sea, or with your whole party, if no conveyance by sea can be found, do so; making such observations on your return as may serve to supply, correct or confirm those made on your outward journey.
Página 82 - ... Should you reach the Pacific ocean, inform yourself of the circumstances which may decide whether the furs of those parts may not be collected as advantageously at the head of the Missouri (convenient as is supposed to the waters of the Colorado...
Página 77 - The interesting points of the portage between the heads of the Missouri & the water offering the best communication with the Pacific Ocean should also be fixed by observation, & the course of that water to the ocean, in the same manner as that of the Missouri.
Página 77 - Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude and longitude at all remarkable points on the river, & especially at the mouths of rivers, at rapids, at islands & other places & objects distinguished by such natural marks & characters of a durable kind, as that they may with certainty be recognized hereafter.
Página 83 - On reentering the United States and reaching a place of safety, discharge any of your attendants who may desire and deserve it, procuring for them immediate payment of all arrears of pay and clothing which may have incurred since their departure, and assure them that they shall be recommended to the liberality of the legislature for the grant of a soldier's portion of land each, as proposed in my message to congress, and repair yourself, with your papers, to the seat of government.