 | Jeremiah N. Reynolds - 1836 - 318 頁
...waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado, or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication...across the continent, for the purposes of commerce. "Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude and longitude, at all... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - 1840 - 250 頁
...Pacific, some stream, "whether the Columbia, the Oregon, the Colorado, or any other, which might offer the most direct and practicable water communication...across the continent, for the purposes of commerce."* A few days after the delivery of these instructions to Lewis, as commander of the expedition, the news... | |
 | 1842 - 600 頁
...Pacific, some stream, .whether the Columbia, the Oregon, the Colorado, or any other, which might offer the most direct and practicable water communication...across the continent, for the purposes of commerce." On the 14th of May, 1804, Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, in pursuance of these instructions, launched their... | |
 | Robert Greenhow - 1844 - 514 頁
...Pacific, some stream, " whether the Columbia, the Oregon, the Colorado, or any other, which might offer the most direct and practicable water communication...time, appointed to examine the Upper Mississippi, and the principal streams falling into that great river from the west, below the Missouri, in order that... | |
 | Travers Twiss - 1846 - 304 頁
...Pacific some stream, whether the Columbia, the Oregon, the Colorado, or any other, which might offer the most direct and practicable water communication...across the continent for the purposes of commerce." The party succeeded in passing the Rocky Mountains towards the end of September, 1805, and after following,... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1846 - 88 頁
...Pacific some stream, " whether the Columbia, the Oregon, the Colorado, or any other which might offer the most direct and practicable water communication across the continent, for the purpose of commerce." The parly began to ascend the Missouri in May, 1804, and, in the summer of 1805,... | |
 | 1846 - 882 頁
...Pacific some stream, 'whether the Columbia, the Oregon, the Colorado, or any other which might offer the most direct and practicable water communication across the continent, for the purpose of commerce.' The party began to ascend the Missouri in May, 1804, and in the summer of 1805... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1866 - 246 頁
...their sources, so as to trace out to its termination on the Pacific some stream " which might ofifer the most direct and practicable water communication across the continent for the purpose of commerce." This measure was originated before the ratification, on 31st October, 1803, of... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 628 頁
...waters of the Pacific ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado, or any other river, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication...across the continent for the purposes of commerce. " Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude and longitude at all... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 628 頁
...waters of the Pacific ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado, or any other river, may oiler the most direct and practicable water communication...across the continent for the purposes of commerce. " Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude and longitude at all... | |
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The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal streams of it, as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado, or any other river, may offer the most direct... 
