Book/Printed Material The West: its soil, surface, and productions.
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- Date: 1848
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Image 3 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions.- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 4 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. PR ay oc att A- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 5 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 7 a ts oS 7 STATISTICS OF THE Wet 17- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 6 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. nT ie re ey- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 7 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. THE WEST 4 SOIL SURFACE AND PRODUCTIONS BY ak Ss sri ag Ee JAMES HALL a _ e9 9 390 ao ID 2e 52 D an 3 2 i 5 OO a…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 8 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. Entered according to Act of Coneress in the year 1847 BY JAMES HALL in the Clerks Office for the District Court of Ohio BAS4 Okt S6TEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY E SHEPARD Columbia…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 9 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. a See PREFACE Tue greater portion of the following work was pub lished some years ago under the title of Notes on the Western States but as that or a similar name…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 10 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 4 Seu Vaeety 7 os eat tes aia fal rg aa pi is- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 11 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. CONTENTS CHAPTER I The Western Plainits limitsits topographythe general char BEAGY GE 18 1GTHAMGM oavec ong atlas sosccescacvecssecer age Id CHAPTER II The River Ohioits etymologyscenerytimberlow water floodsthe great flood of 1832impediments…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 12 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. CONTENTS CHAPTER VIII Destitution of water on the Prairies considered and explained WE ERAN 0502S ae eat os syle gas oan os ae dew a Page 105 CHAPTER IX Wild Animals in…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 13 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. THE WESTERN PLAIN CHAPTER I The Western PlainIts LimitsIts TopographyThe General Character of its FormationIts Mineral Resources In order to understand the subject distinctly it will be necessary to consider carefully the…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 14 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 14 THE WESTERN PLAIN variety of its productions the multiplicity and extent of its navigable communications and its central position in relation to our continent it will be conceded that there is…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 15 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. TOPOGRAPHY 15 Points Indicated Elevation Sources of the streams on the route of the Expedi tion tributary to lakes Winnepeck and Superior and head waters of the Mississippi 1200 Dog Lake ays…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 16 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 1é TOPOGRAPHY streams must wear down in a corresponding manner the neighboring parts of the plain and presenting abrupt points between them shew the appearance of river hills We give the language…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 17 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. CHARACTER OF FORMATION 17 zontal limestone pan of such depth that its thick strata have never been pierced through although the auger has penetrated into it in search of salt water in…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 18 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 18 CHARACTER OF FORMATION of Green river and southern parts of Illinois and Mis souri formed the chief scenes of this alarming phenome non the vibrations of which were however felt in…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 19 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. peer CHARACTER OF FORMATION 19 would have resulted from them The diversities of tem per and of physical organisation are so numerous that we should receive with great distrust any observations upon…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 20 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. a ie os 20 MINERAL RESOURCES With the breadth of an empire we have all the facili ties for intercourse and trade which could be enjoyed within more limited boundaries Our natural…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 21 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. THE RIVER OHIO Q1 tern lakes The ore has been found in small quantities in different places and at one spot a solid mass weighing several tons of remarkable purity has attracted…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 22 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 22 THE RIVER OHIv aboriginal languages of our countryas expressed in a paper in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society From this communication it appears evident that the idea which has…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 23 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. THE RIVER OHIO 23 Ohiopeek very white caused by froth or white caps Ohiophanne very white stream Ohiopeekhanne very deep and white stream by its being covered over with white caps Ohiopehhele…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 24 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 24 THE RIVER OHIO or three hundred feet in height approach the river and confine it closely on either side Their tops have usual ly a rounded and graceful form and are…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 25 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. THE RIVER OHIO 25 Ohio do not any where present that savage grandeur which often characterises our larger streams No tall cliffs no bare peaks nor sterile mountains impress a sen timent…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
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Image 26 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 26 THE RIVER OHIO One peculiarity which is common to this river and the Mississippi and is perhaps owing as well to their great volume of water as to the nature of…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 27 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. THE RIVER OHIO ST thicket and as it is usually in this region found among ponds and bayou the canebrake is always a secure re treat for bears which feed upon the…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 28 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 28 rHE RIVER OHIO vines are numerous and very large the stems being some times nearly a foot in thickness though seldom exceeding six or eight inches and the branches extending to…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 29 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. THE RIVER OHIO 29 ful pilots ply with difficulty from port to port Many are grounded upon the bars from which perilous situa tion some are relieved with great labor while others…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 30 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 20 run RIVER ONTO covered and we gave upon a mass of waters the immen sity of which creates a fecling of awe as well as of intense curiosity This accumulation is…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 31 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. THE RIVER ONTO 91 a great stream increasing with gradual and majestic progression and affording to man and brute due notice of its approach In so large a volume of water it…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 32 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 3z THE RIVER OHIO more frequently on its tributary streams and often on the smaller rivers and creeks far inland and at points beyond the reach of all ordinary navigation Here they…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 33 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. THE RIVER OHIO 33 flood The first point to be examined was m reference to the area of the valley of the Ohio and its waters above Cincinnati or in other words…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 34 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 34 THE RIVER OHIO midway in the length of the stream The rule applies usually to each stream propereach having its separate valley and would be operative upon the Ohio within the…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 35 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. THE RIVER OHIO 35D and most abundant deposite is made as the water flows outward over the banks In lower water the navigation of this river is impeded in its upper portions…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 36 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 36 THE RIVER OHIO of so much of the public treasure as may be set apart for such purposes for all of them in which the land is owned by the government…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 37 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. THE RIVER OHIO 37 being parties concerned and New York having a direct interest and connexion with the west which would con ciliate her favor Among ourselves there could be but one…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 38 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. ae Me 38 THE RIVER OHIO This subject has already received some attention from Congress and the results have been auspicious Taking all that has been done together little as it has…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 39 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. THE RIVER OHIO 39 fertile bottoms which alternate in very regular succession on either side of the river ledges of rock occasionally appear along its banks these are generally of stratified and…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
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Image 40 of The West: its soil, surface, and productions. 40 THE RIVER OHIO as the sandbars at the lower junction of the chutes formed by the islands these change their position when upon the fall of the waters the main channel…- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall, James
- Date: 1848
About this Item
Title
- The West: its soil, surface, and productions.
Names
- Hall, James, 1793-1868.
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Cincinnati, Derby, Bradley & co., 1848.
Headings
- - West (U.S.)--Description and travel
- - Mississippi River Valley--Description and travel
- - Public lands--United States
Notes
- - Half-title: "Statistics of the West."
- - "The greater portion of the ... work was published ... under the title of 'Notes on the Western states.'"--Pref.
- - Also available in digital form.
- - LAC ael 2020-09-24 update (1 card)
Medium
- [5]-260 p. 20 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F353 .H193
- F353 .H193 Copy 2 Toner Coll
Library of Congress Control Number
- 02012066
OCLC Number
- 5021740
Online Format
- online text
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