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Identifier: reportsofexplora02unit_0 (find matches)
Title: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: United States. War Dept Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Subjects: Pacific railroads Discoveries in geography Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer (etc.)
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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of the descent uponthe lower part, where it should curve around a mass of low hills in a bend of the mountains, to theplain just indicated, which subsides gently into the valley of San Luis in the direction of theCoochetopa Pass. The entire descent from the summit of Sangre de Cristo Pass to our presentcamp, is 854 feet in a distance of seventeen miles. A meridian altitude of the sun, gave us forFort Massachusetts a latitude of 37° 31 59. After completing the examination of the Sangre de Cristo Pass, Captain Gunnison made anexamination of the mountains to the south of the Spanish Peaks, by ascending Gold branchfrom its junction with El Sangre de Cristo, to near its head. It is a very crooked stream, cominginto the Sangre de Cristo from north 55° east for three miles, then east for one mile, thence wind-ing from the southeast near the mountains beyond Indian and Culebra creeks, and near one ofthe head branches of the Cuchara. Becoming satisfied, after a long ride, of the exaggeration
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