http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0339974
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alternative: History of Oregon and California
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Greenhow, Robert, 1800-1854
issued: 2016-11-09
issued: 1844
description: "Same pagination as Boston edition. Errata slip inserted. Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, London." -- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 119.
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extent: xviii, 482 pages : map (folded) ; 24 cm
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note: $r^ GREENHOW (K.). The history of Orpcmr, ■ and California, and the other territories^ the North-West Coast of America. London 1844. Map, cloth, uncut 8° 12s 6d (26086) HISTOEY OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. 17 HISTORY I w Oregon j™)California, OT^^R/TERRITORIES sOT -• NORTH-WIj^ CM ST OF NORTH AMERICA; GEOGRAPHICAL VIEW AND MAP r C—* OF THOSE COUNTRIES, PROOFS AND ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HIST( ROBERT GREENHOW, meiioa, as a Nation of a Hundred ;he Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakspeare and Milton, is an august conception."—Coleridge's Table Talk. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. B$i {So 3o3 MY VENERABLE AND MAJOR-GENERAL MORGAN LEWIS, THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED, ROBERT GREENHOW. PREFACE. The foUowing pages are devoted, principally, to the description and history of the portion of North America bordering on the Pacific Ocean, between the 40th and the 54th parallels of latitude, which is traversed and in a great meas- ERRATA. Page 389, line 4 for "hem 0reover,»read«Mr Mac auley „ 391, line 1 , for « Lor I Palmerston," read "Mr Mac ages. Its shores and some of the rivers have been examined with care, and their course may be found delineated with considerable minuteness on maps. Of the interior regions, some have never been explored, and are indeed apparently impenetrable by man; others, which offer fewer obstacles to the traveller, are only known through the vague and imperfect accounts of traders or missionaries; and in those which have been the most frequented by civilized persons, much remains to be effected by the aid of scientific observations in order to obtain satisfactory ideas of their geography and physical characteristics. PREFACE. The following pages are devoted, principally, to the description and history of the portion of North America bordering on the Pacific Ocean, between the 40th and the 54th parallels of latitude, which is traversed and in a great measure drained, by the River Columbia, and to which the name of ORE…
note: Includes index Other copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/959876887
has type: Books
identifier: F880 .G8 1844c
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0339974
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: London : John Murray
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subject: Pacific States--History
subject: Northwest Coast of North America
title: The history of Oregon and California, and the other territories on the north-west coast of North America; accompanied by a geographical view and map of those countries and a number of documents as proofs and illustrations of the history
type: Text