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    • Peluse (Palouse) Falls

    • Peluse (Palouse) Falls

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys;Waterfalls; Palouse River (Wash.); Palouse Falls (Wash.)

    • "The Peluse (Palouse) River flows over three steppes, each of which is estimated to have an ascent of a thousand feet. The falls descend from the middle of the lower of these steppes." "The fall of the water, which is about thirty...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Grand Coulee

    • Grand Coulee

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Canyons; Grand Coulee (Wash.)

    • "The Grand Coulee is about ten miles wide where it opens on the Columbia River at its northern end, which is a hundred feet above the water, and gradually widens toward the south; its walls, eight hundred feet high are formed of solid basaltic...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Source of the Peluse (Palouse)

    • Source of the Peluse (Palouse)

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Palouse River (Wash.); Mountains

    • The Peluse (Palouse) River "has its source in the main ridge of the Bitter Root" Mountains, "and flows in nearly a straight course through a valley some twenty miles wide," bearing north "through a country densely timbered...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Butte de Morale

    • Butte de Morale

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Buttes

    • "The altitude of this butte, as determined by barometric measurement, is 281.8 feet above the level of the Shyenne (Cheyenne) River." Named for "an engagement between some half-breeds and Sioux, in which one of the former, by the...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Near Mouse River

    • Near Mouse River

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Mouse River (N. Dakota)

    • "Near Mouse River there are salt marshes" "and in some places deposits of salt a quarter of an inch thick." Mouse River valley "resembles that of the Sheyenne (Cheyenne). High ridges divide the plateau bordering the stream...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
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