File:The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide - for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines - containing descriptions of states, (14759292902).jpg

Identifier: officialnorthern00nort (find matches)
Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
arge as all the NewEngland and Middle States, together with Ohio, Indiana, Illi-nois, Wisconsm, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee combined,or as all that portion of the United States lying east of theMississippi River and north of Georgia and the Carolinas. Acountry so vast as this must be a poor one mdeed, if the paltry$7,200,000 paid for it does not turn out to bear liule morethan the same proportion to its value that was borne by thepepper-corn rent in so many old English legal conveyances tothe valuable estates for whose holding it was the nominalannual consideration. With regard to its physical conditions, it is sufficient for ourpresent purpose to say that a large part of it is still passingthrough the glacial period; that it contains in Mount St. Eliasthe highest mountain on the North American Continent, and inMount Cook, Mount Crillon and Mount Fairweather peaks ex-ceeded in height only by Mount Popocatepetl and MountOrizaba, in Mexico; that its great river, the Yukon, computed
Text Appearing After Image:
418 TJie Northern Pacific Railroad. to be not less than 3,000 miles long, is navigable for a distanceof 2,000 miles, is from one mile to five miles in breadth for noless than 1,000 miles of its coarse, and is seventy miles wideacross its five mouths and the intervening deltas; and that,while the climate of the interior is Arctic in the severity of itswinter and tropical in the heat of its summer, that of the im-mense southern coast, with its thousands of islands, is one ofthe most equable in the world, by reason of the Kuro-siwo, orJapan current, a thermal stream which renders the entireNorth Pacific Coast, even in this high latitude, warm andhumid. Only four times in forty-five years has the tempera-ture at Sitka fallen to zero, while only seven summers in thatsame period have been marked by a higher temperature than80^ Fah. The influence of moisture in regulating temperatureis too well known to call for any further remarks under thishead, and the facts above given are stated only th

Note About Images