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Title: The natural history of Washington territory, with much relating to Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oregon, and California, between the thirty-sixth and forty-ninth parallels of latitude, being those parts of the final reports on the survey of the Northern Pacific railroad route, containing the climate and physical geography, with full catalogues and descriptions of the plants and animals collected from 1853 to 1857
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Cooper, J. G. (James Graham), 1830-1902 Suckley, George, 1830-1869 Cooper, William, 1798?-1864 Gibbs, George, 1815-1873 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883 United States. War Dept. Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the ... route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : Baillière brothers, London, H. Baillière (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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hester, New York, 24 years Detroit, Michigan, 13 years ., Beloit, Wisconsin, 6 years Fort Snelling, Minnesota, 35J years Fort Benton, Nebraska, 1 year Laperai, 2J years Walla-Walla, 1J years Dalles, 6 years Vienna, Austria Philadelphia, 20 years Washington, 13 years St. Louis, 23 years Cincinnati, 20 years February. o 30.726.426.625.817.626.63S.834.540.033.536.336.735.034.1 March. o 35.533.135.433.831.436.242.742.746.440.845.645.344.043.5 December. o 29.528.526.924.016.933.040.438.683.733.027. 137.333.634.5 We thus find that cultivation may be commenced some days earlier in the Territory than atplaces several degrees further south in the Atlantic States, and some weeks earlier than in placesof the same latitude. Allowing for the close vicinity of all the western territory posts tomountain ranges, we may suppose that a still greater difference exists in certain localities onthe Great Plain, where the greater dryness of summer also requires an early cultivation for 2oc; O 1-oc: ( i <
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CO c; METEOKOLOGY. 13 success. The difference will be at once apparent, to farmers especially, as a mean temperaturebelow 32° prevents ploughing in winter and various other operations, and stops entirely thegrowth of several winter crops, which, in the mild winters near the western coast, makeconsiderable progress. Grazing is excellent throughout, precluding the necessity of laying upmuch supply of fodder. Even comparing the elevated interior with various places much further south, we find theadvantage still in our favor: Latitude. Altitude. Years obs. February. March. December. O 35 642 1240 46 Feet.5,0324,5194,351 66 312 o 39.632.635.0 o 47.936.839.7 o36. 0 KoTt Laramie, Nebraska .....-..-..- 28.0 Salt Lake City 34. 1 which will not be exceeded in any part of the interior of Oregon, except near the Columbia,on account of the greater elevation of all parts of that country. Having, as already shown, more moisture deposited during winter and spring than any pointin Nebraska, or near l

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