Letter from the Secretary of War : transmitting in response to Senate resolution of April 5, 1882, a letter from the Chief of Engineers, the accompanying copy of a report from Lieut. T.W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, embracing all the information in this department respecting the navigable waters of the Upper Columbia River and its tributaries, and of the country adjacent thereto.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.

Contributor:

Symons, T. W. (Thomas William), 1849-1920.

Series:

Senate executive document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 47th Congress, 1st session, no. 186.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

U.S. 47th Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Ex. Doc. ; 186

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discoveries in geography--American.

Discoveries in geography.

Columbia River Valley.

United States--Discovery and exploration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 p., 31 leaves of plates) : ill., maps.

Other Title:

Letter from the Secretary of War

Place of Publication:

[Washington : G.P.O., 1882]

Notes:

Added t.p.: The Upper Columbia River, and the Great Plain of the Columbia.

Appended is "Map of the upper Columbia river. 25 sheets and an index sheet. From surveys and examinations made in 1881, by Lieut. Thomas W. Symons ... and Alfred Downing ... Drawn by Alfred Downing ... These sheets are numbered consecutively from the boundary to Snake River, and can be joined ... showing the river continuously."

Reproduction of the original from the Library of Congress.

OCLC:

879314630