Author : Edwin James
Release : 2015-07-26
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Account of an Expedition From Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Vol. 3 of 3 by : Edwin James
Download or read book Account of an Expedition From Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Vol. 3 of 3 written by Edwin James. This book was released on 2015-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Account of an Expedition From Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Vol. 3 of 3: Performed in the Years 1819, 1820 Inconveniences Resulting from want of Water. - Wood Tickets. - Plants. - Loss of One of the Party. - Honey Bees. - Forests. - Gray Sandstone. - Indications of Coal. - Limestone. August 22d. So much rain had fallen during the night, that, soon after commencing our morning march, we enjoyed the novel and pleasing sight of a running stream of water. It had been only two weeks since the disappearance of running water in the river above, but during this time we had suffered much from thirst, and had been constantly tantalized with the expectation of arriving at the spot where the river should emerge from the sand. By our computation of distances we had travelled more than one hundred and fifty miles along the bed of this river without having once found it to contain running water. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.