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    • 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
    • Dalles

    • Dalles

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Columbia River; Channels; Indian encampments; Canoes; Dalles (Or.)

    • The Dalles is a narrow place in the Columbia River, where the channel has been worn out of the rocks, below which about ten miles, is the mouth of the Klikitat River. Drawing shows an Indian encampment on the bank and a canoe on the water. Plate...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Fort Okinakane (Okanogan)

    • Fort Okinakane (Okanogan)

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Fort Okanogan (Wash.)

    • "Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is an old and ruinous establishment of the Hudson Bay Company." "The character of the Columbia along the western border of the Spokane Plain and as far as Fort Okinakane (Okanogan) is described as follows:...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Lake Jessie

    • Lake Jessie

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lake Jessie

    • "The water of Lake Jessie is considerably saline in its character," "and the theory for the saline qualities is found in the fact that it is never washed out, and retains the salt deposits and incrustations." Plate XI.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Lightning Lake

    • Lightning Lake

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Lightning Lake (Mont.)

    • "Lightning Lake is a very beautiful sheet of water, so called from the fact that during Captain Pope's expedition, while encamped here, one of those storms so fearfully violent in this country occurred, during which one of his party was...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Marias River

    • Marias River

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Marias River (Mont.)

    • Marias River "flows in a channel two or three hundred feet below the prairie level, and is tolerable well wooded. The water was at that time one hundred and fifty feet wide and two to four feet deep, slightly milky, with a swift current and...
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Sauk River

    • Sauk River

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Sauk River (Minn.)

    • Sauk River at the point of the expeditions "ford is about 120 feet wide, though, owing to the obliquity of the banks and rapidity of current, the ford is near 300 feet wide and the water five feet deep." Plate III.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • 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
    • White Bear Lake

    • White Bear Lake

    • Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; White Bear Lake (Minn.)

    • White Bear Lake, "a beautiful sheet of water, bordered with timber, about fourteen miles long and two wide, with high swelling banks running back a mile or so, and rising to the height of about one hundred and fifty feet." Plate V.
    • Pacific Railroad Survey Prints
    • Banks Lake

    • Banks Lake

    • Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake (Wash.); Banks Lake (Wash.)

    • Storage reservoir in the Grand Coulee, supplied with water pumped from Lake Roosevelt.
    • Hubert Blonk
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