Nothing can exceed the beauty of these waters and their safety. Not a shoal exists within the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty inlet, or Hood's canal, that can in any way interrupt their navigation by a 74-gun ship. Southern Quarterly Review - Page 269edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
| Charles Wilkes - 1845 - 392 pages
...Sound, or Hood's Canal, that ean in any way interrupt their navigation by a seventy-four gun ship. I venture nothing in saying, there is no country in the world that possesses waters equal to these. Anchorage off Nisqually. Plan of operations. OREGON. Cowlitz river. The anchorage off Nisqually is... | |
| Charles Grenfell Nicolay - 1846 - 248 pages
...Puget's Sound, or Hood's Canal, that can in any way interrupt their navigation by a 74-gun ship. I venture nothing in saying there is no country in the world that possesses waters equal to these." 68 CHAPTER III. TRAPPERS AND VOYAGEURS. ALTHOUGH there has been always a prestige in favour of the... | |
| Charles Wilkes - 1849 - 702 pages
...Sound, or Hood's Canal, that can in any way interrupt their navigation by a seventy-four gun ship. I venture nothing in saying, there is no country in the world that possesses waters equal to theso. The shore rises abruptly to a height of about two hundred feet, and on the top of the ascent... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1863 - 874 pages
...protection may be found against the winds. Capt. Wilkes, in the report of his exploring expedition, says: "I venture nothing in saying there is no country in the world that possesses waters equal to these." Between the mouth of Puget sound (lat. 48°) and lat. 49° there are a number of islands and bays which... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1863 - 898 pages
...protection may be found against the winds. Capt. Wilkes, in the report of his exploring expedition, says: "I venture nothing in saying there is no country in the world that possesses waters equal to these." Between the mouth of Puget sound (lat. 48°) and lat. 49° there are a number of islands and bays which... | |
| United States. Department of the Treasury - 1868 - 772 pages
...Kuca, Admiralty inlet, or Hood's cuñal, that can in any v ay interrupt their navigation by a 74-gun ship. 1 venture nothing in saying there is no country...in the world that possesses waters equal to these. They cover an aren of about 2.0I«1 square mili-*. The shores of all these inlets and bays are remarkably... | |
| United States. Dept. of the Treasury, John Ross Browne - 1868 - 764 pages
...Fuca, Admiralty inlet, or Hood's canal, that can in any way interrupt their navigation by a 74-gun ship. 1 venture nothing in saying there is no country...in the world that possesses waters equal to these. They cover an aren of about 2. 000 square mill's. The shores of all these inlets and bays are remarkably... | |
| John Ross Browne, United States. Department of the Treasury - 1868 - 756 pages
...Admiralty inlet, or Hood's canal, that can in any way interrupt their navigation by a 74-gun ship. I venture nothing in saying there is no country in the world that possesses waters equal to these. They cover an area of about 2, 000 square miles. The shores of all these inlets and bays are rejn ark... | |
| John Ross Browne - 1869 - 890 pages
...Fuca, Admiralty inlet, or Hood's canal, that can in any way interrupt their navigation by a 74-gun ship. 1 venture nothing in saying there is no country...in the world that possesses waters equal to these. They cover an area of about 2.000 square miles. The shores of all these inlets and bays are remarkably... | |
| John Ross Browne - 1869 - 878 pages
...Admiralty inlet, or Hood's canal, that can in any way interrupt their navigation by a 74-gun ship. I venture nothing in saying there is no country in the world that possesses waters equal to these. They cover an area of about 2,000 square miles. The shores of all these inlets and bays are re in ark... | |
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