Philp's Washington Described: A Complete View of the American Capital, and the District of Columbia, with Many Notices, Historical, Topographical, and Scientific, of the Seat of GovernmentWilliam D'Arcy Haley S. Low, 1861 - Počet stran: 239 |
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... important streams , and , after a winding course of about four hundred miles , discharges into Chesapeake Bay . The principal tributaries of the Potomac are the Shenandoah , the Mono- cacy , the Conococheague , and the Anacostia , or ...
... important streams , and , after a winding course of about four hundred miles , discharges into Chesapeake Bay . The principal tributaries of the Potomac are the Shenandoah , the Mono- cacy , the Conococheague , and the Anacostia , or ...
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... important data require the researches of the United States Coast Survey . From the Potomac the following marketable fishes are obtained , amongst which the shad and herring , because of their abundance , are , in an economical point of ...
... important data require the researches of the United States Coast Survey . From the Potomac the following marketable fishes are obtained , amongst which the shad and herring , because of their abundance , are , in an economical point of ...
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... important of these is the deadly copperhead snake ( Ancistrodon contortrix ) , not uncommon about the Little Falls . The rattlesnake is not now known to inhabit the District , though doubtless once a resident . Other serpents are the ...
... important of these is the deadly copperhead snake ( Ancistrodon contortrix ) , not uncommon about the Little Falls . The rattlesnake is not now known to inhabit the District , though doubtless once a resident . Other serpents are the ...
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... importance of a site in the centre of territory , population , and wealth , easy of access to the west , with a convenient communication with the seaboard . The northern members were in favor of a site on the Susquehanna , while the ...
... importance of a site in the centre of territory , population , and wealth , easy of access to the west , with a convenient communication with the seaboard . The northern members were in favor of a site on the Susquehanna , while the ...
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... importance to the Union . The bill to carry this resolution into effect passed the House by a vote of thirty - one to nineteen , and was amended by the Senate by inserting Germantown , Penn- sylvania , in place of the location on the ...
... importance to the Union . The bill to carry this resolution into effect passed the House by a vote of thirty - one to nineteen , and was amended by the Senate by inserting Germantown , Penn- sylvania , in place of the location on the ...
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