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" ... Leaving this encampment, (our last on the waters which flow towards the rising sun,) we took our way along the upland, towards the dividing ridge which separates the Atlantic from the Pacific waters, and crossed it by a road some miles further south... "
A Project for a Railroad to the Pacific - Page 37
by Asa Whitney - 1849 - 112 pages
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents ..., Volume 4, Part 2

United States. Congress. House - 900 pages
...and crossed it by a road some miles further south than the one we had followed on our return in 1842. We crossed very near the Table mountain, at the southern...twenty miles in width, and already traversed by several diHerent roads. Selecting as well as J could, in the scarcely distinguishable ascent, what might be...
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Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the ..., Volume 2

John Charles Frémont, John Torrey, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1845 - 678 pages
...and crossed it by a road some miles further south than the one we had followed on our return in 1842. We crossed very near the Table mountain, at the southern...7,490 feet for the elevation above the Gulf of Mexico. You will remember that, in my report of 1842, I estimated the elevation of this pass at about 7.000...
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Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year ...

John Charles Frémont - 1840 - 290 pages
...and crossed it by a road some miles farther south than the one we had followed on our return in 1842. We crossed very near the table mountain, at the southern...7,490 feet for the elevation above the Gulf of Mexico. You. will remember that, in my report of 1842, 1 estimated the elevation of this pass at about 7,000...
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Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the ..., Volume 1

John Charles Frémont - 1845 - 816 pages
...and crossed it by a road some miles further south than the one we had followed on our return in 1842. We crossed very near the table mountain, at the southern...the dividing ridge in this remarkable depression in thfi mountain, I took a barometrical observation, which gave 7,490 feet for the elevation above the...
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Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the ..., Volume 1

John Charles Frémont - 1845 - 822 pages
...and crossed it by a road some miles further south than the one we had followed on our return in 1842. We crossed very near the table mountain, at the southern...twenty miles in width, and already traversed by several difi'erent roads. Selecting as well as I could, in the scarcely distinguishable ascent, what might...
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Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the ..., Volume 1

John Charles Frémont - 1845 - 764 pages
...and crossed it by a road some miles further south than the one we had followed on our return in 1842. We crossed very near the table mountain, at the southern...extremity of the South Pass, which is near twenty miles iu width, and already traversed by several different roads. Selecting as well as I could, in the scarcely...
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The Friend, Volume 19

Robert Smith - 1846 - 434 pages
...and crossed it by a road some miles further south than the one we had followed on our return in 1842. We crossed very near the table mountain, at the southern...the scarcely distinguishable ascent, what might be considcied the dividing ridge in this remarkable depression in the mountain, I look a barometrical...
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Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, in the Year ...

John Charles Frémont - 1846 - 402 pages
...and crossed it by a road some miles further south than the one we had followed on our return in 1842. We crossed very near the table mountain, at the southern extremity of the South Pass, which is near 20 miles in width, and already traversed by several different roads. Selecting as well as I could,...
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Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year ...

John Charles Frémont - 1846 - 200 pages
...and crossed it by a road some miles further south than the one we had followed on our return in 1842. We crossed very near the table mountain, at the southern extremity of the South Pass, which ie near twenty miles in width, and already traversed by several different roads. Selecting as well...
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Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains: In the Year ...

John Charles Frémont - 1847 - 446 pages
...and crossed it by a road some miles further south than the one we had followed on our return in 1842. We crossed very near the Table mountain, at the southern...roads. Selecting, as well as I could, in the scarcely dis', tinguishable ascent, what might be considered the dividing ridge in this remarkable depression...
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