Description
Item Description:Title from p. xxi.
At head of title: Explorations and surveys for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. War Department.
Includes transmittal letter from Joseph Henry, Smithsonian Institution, to A.A. Humphreys, Topographical Engineers.
Also published as: Ex. doc. (United States. Congress (33rd, 2nd session : 1854-1855). House) ; 33rd Congress, 2nd session, number 91.
Physical Description:[xxi]-xlviii, 757 pages, 43 unnumbered leaves of plates [numbered XVII-LX] : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Available in print and full-text online via the Internet at the Library of Congress' American Memory project web-site in the Nineteenth Century in Print: Books collection.
Additional Physical Form available Note:Available in print and full-text online via the Internet at the Library of Congress' American Memory project web-site in the Nineteenth Century in Print: Books collection.
With Note:With: Introduction. General sketch of lines explored (p. xiii-xvii)