 Cape Hancock or Disappointment, at the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon Territory, and for information as to the locality on which it should be placed, &c. : "I have the honor to state, that Cape Hancock or Disappointment, at the mouth of the Columbia...  Notices of the Western Coast of the United States - Page 52by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - 1851 - 55 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 632 pages
...Disappointment, at the .mli of the Columbia river, Oregon Territory, where it is proposed by a ate act of Congress to erect the principal light-house...columnar basalt, rising perpendicularly from the sea to variaUe heights of from 200 te 300 feet, terminating in unequal rolling summits covered with a rich... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1851 - 700 pages
...or Disappointment, at the mouth of the Columbia river, Oregon Territory, where it is proposed by а late act of Congress to erect the principal light-house...from 200 to 300 feet, terminating in unequal rolling sumants covered with a rich and fertile soil. These summits vary also in width from ten to fifty feet... | |
 | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey - 1852 - 914 pages
...Coast Survey, Washington. Report of Lieutenant Washington A. Bartlett, United States navy, assistant in coast survey, to the Superintendent, in relation to...perpendicularly from the sea to variable heights of from two hundred to three hundred feet, terminating in unequal rolling summits, covered with a rich and... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1852 - 624 pages
...light-house at Cape Hancock, or Disappointment, entrance to Columbia river. WASHINGTON, November 29, I860. SIR : In answer to your inquiries as to the character...perpendicularly from the sea to variable heights of from two hundred to three hundred feet, terminating in unequal rolling summits, covered with a rich and... | |
 | Oregon Historical Society - Local history - 1915 - 478 pages
...mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon Terriffl. I M ' *t/ffiS*r*f .'•^ '.w .//'-*• .;-<•*. ^W tory, and for information as to the locality on which it...rolling summits, covered with a rich and fertile soil. "These summits vary also in width from ten to fifty feet at the apex, whence they slope by a quick... | |
 | Oregon Historical Society - Northwest, Pacific - 1915 - 470 pages
...to the report of Bartlett on the proposed lighthouse at Cape Disappointment, which is as follows : Washington, November 29, 1850. "Sir: In answer to...rolling summits, covered with a rich and fertile soil. "These summits vary also in width from ten to fifty feet at the apex, whence they slope by a quick... | |
 | Oregon Historical Society - Northwest, Pacific - 1915 - 462 pages
...proposed lighthouse at Cape Disappointment, which is as follows : Washington, November 29, 1850. tory, and for information as to the locality on which it...rolling summits, covered with a rich and fertile soil. "These summits vary also in width from ten to fifty feet at the apex, whence they slope by a quick... | |
 | United States - 1850 - 590 pages
...Slates navy, assistant in the cnait survey, to the Superintendent, in relation to a lighthouse at Cafe Hancock, or Disappointment, entrance to Columbia river....rolling summits covered with a rich and fertile soil. These summits vary also in width from ten to fifty feet at the apex, whence they slope by a quick descent... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 606 pages
...light-house at Cape Hancock, or Disappointment, entrance to Columbia river. WASHINGTON, November 29, 1S50. SIR: In answer to your inquiries as to the character...perpendicularly from the sea to variable heights of from two hundred to three hundred feet, terminating in unequal rolling summits, covered with a rich and... | |
 | United States - 1851 - 664 pages
...or Disappointment, at the ouihof the Columbia river, Oregon Territory, where it is proposed by a te act of Congress to erect the principal light-house for that river, is a lid cliff of columnar basalt, rising perpendicularly from the sea to varia-» ^heights of from 200... | |
| |
