Biographical Notice Of Clarence King

Author : Samuel Franklin Emmons
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331663303
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Biographical Memoir of Clarence King written by Samuel Franklin Emmons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Biographical Memoir of Clarence King: 1842-1901 Indians, which proved a by no means useless though. Sometimes troublesome adjunct. In the following May the party proceeded to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, but it was near the end of July before all the necessary preparations had been made and they took up their march from Sacramento across the Sierra Nevada to their field of work. In these days, when the West is covered by a network of rail ways, it is difficult to conceive of the obstacles that had to be overcome in carrying out so ambitious a work as that which King had planned. Of the transcontinental railroads but a few miles at either end had yet been constructed. The territories of Utah and Nevada were represented on most maps of the day as one broad desert, and it was considered doubtful whether sufficient water and grass could be found there to support a camping party. Through such a country it was designed to carry, not a simple meander survey along a previously chosen route, as had hitherto been the custom in military explorations, but the detailed map ping, both topographical and geological, of an area about 100 miles in width, which finally extended nearly miles in length. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.