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Identifier: railroadrecordjo31855cinc (find matches)
Title: Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics
Year: 1853 (1850s)
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Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: Cincinnati (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ion of a railroad, on eithershore, and opens up the great highway to theocean ! These mountains are heavily tim-bered with pine, fir and cedar. The valleysare fertile and well adapted to agriculture,being interspersed with alternate districts oftimber and prairie, well watered, affording am-ple hydraulic power. The entire body of theColumbia river, where I now am, may be ap-propriated to hydraulic purposes, which is alsothe case with the Willamette at Oregon city,and almost every other stream on the Pacificseaboard. Continuingfrom the Cascadesdown the northbank of the river to Vancouver, thence to themouth of the Columbia, with a bifurcationfrom the corolity toOlympiaon Pugets Sound,and the great transit of the continent is ac-complished ! the European and the Orientalcommerce is connected! its current changesand its tides ebb and flow. We are now in that portion of the world,according to Humboldt, where the most pro-lific vegetable growth exists upon its surface; 776 RAILROAD RECORD.
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•c .ii in. to the same author, in consequence. the semi-annual wind currents, whichgently fliw from the pole towards the equa-tor during the summer season, and from theequator towards the pole during the wintersi.n.s m, there exist? a difference in the meantemperature of the atmosphere of 14 deg. insummer, and 18 deg. 12 minutes in winter;this difference is in favor of the Pacific sea-board, and develops the astonishing truth,that from the same parallel of latitude, themean temperature of the atmosphere on thePacific coast, is carried 840 geographicalmiles to the north in summer, and 1092 geo-graphical miles in winter ! This is owing,perhaps, to the simple fact, that there exists upon the planet four wind currents, two ineach hemisphere, semi-annual in their course,which flow in a dense surface current fromthe pole towards the equator, where theybecome heated, rarify, ascend and flow backto either pole again; the changes of thesemonsoons are caused by the relative positionof the pla

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • bookleafnumber:693
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