Mission of the North American people, geographical, social, and political (1874) (14757785181)

Identifier: missionofnortham01gilp (find matches)
Title: Mission of the North American people, geographical, social, and political
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Gilpin, William, 1822-1894
Subjects: Pacific railroads
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co. London, Trübner & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Guests of the Fenian Brotherhood,at Denver, Colorado, July 4, 1868 215 LIST OF MAPS. I. MAP OF NORTH AMERICA. Delineating the Mountain System and its details, The Great Calcareous Plainas a unit, and the continuous encircling Maritime Selvage. n. MAP OF NORTH AMERICA. In which are delineated the Mountain System as a unit, The Great CalcareousPlain and its details, and the continuous encircling Maritime Selvage. in. THERMAL MAP OF NORTH A3IERICA. Delineating the Isothermal Zodiac, the Isothermal Axis of Intensity, and its ex-pansions up and down the • Plateau. TV. MAP ILLrSTRATING THE SYSTEM OF THE PARCS And the domestic relations of the Great Plains, the North American Andes,and the Pacific Maritime Front. MAP OF THE TTORLD. Delineating the Contrasted Longitudinal and Latitudinal Porms of the Continents,the Isothermal Zodiac and Axis of Intensity, round the World, and the Line of theCosmopolitan Eailway and its Longitudinal Feeders. VI. MAP OF THE SYSTEM OF THE PARCS OF COLORADO.14
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THE MISSION OP THE NORTH AMERICAN PEOPLE. CHAPTEK I. THE MOUNTAIN FORMATION OF NORTH AMERICA THE CORDILLERAS— THE PLATEAU THE NORTH AMERICAN ANDES. I HAVE elsewhere given a sketch of one of the cardinal subdivisionsof our continent and country, the Great Plains. I now proceed tosketch what is beyond them, and fills the space out to the Pacific Sea.This is the immense Mountain Formation of North America. I approach the attempt to classify and set down this region with adegree of trepidation which I find it difiicult to master. During theyears of war and exploration which I have passed among them, everyhour has kept alive the awe inspired by the immensity of the space theyoccupy, the grandeur of their bulk and altitude, and the sublime orderand symmetry which pervade them as a system, and in the details.Moreover, no one, not even Humboldt, has ever attempted to reducethem to a classic system, or assented to what I have done in the hydro-graphic map of 1845. These indelibly-graved impr

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