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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 246 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 22 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 22 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 14 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 12 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 12 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 12 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 12 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana 10 0 Browse Search
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finished, this was considered a wonderful achievement; grades of 116 feet to the mile having been deemed insurmountable obstacles: now, however, they are considered but slight impediments, except so far as interfering with speed. The Union Pacific crosses the summit ridge of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 8,460 feet; and the highest point on the railroad between Arequipa and Puno in Peru is 14,586 feet above the sea. The length of the Panama Railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean is nearly 48 miles; the summit ridge is 287 feet above the mean tide of the Atlantic. The distance from New York to Hongkong via Cape Horn is more than 17,000 miles, but by this railway across the Isthmus it is less than 12,000, — a saving of 5,500 miles. This railway was opened in January, 1855. Starting from Aspinwall, on the Atlantic side, for Panama, on the Pacific, the traveler is soon in the midst of a scene of tropical beauty hardly to be surpassed in the world. Cocoa-palms and
ristopher Colon in crossing the Atlantic, 1492. Vasco de Gama in doubling the Cape of Good Hope, November 20, 1497. Ferdinand Magellan in discovering the Pacific Ocean, into which he sailed from the Straits of Magellan, November 28, 1520, and which he named the Pacific Ocean. He sailed across the Pacific, reached the LadronePacific Ocean. He sailed across the Pacific, reached the Ladrones, was killed by mutineers; the vessel anchored at Tidore, November 8, 1521, having been at sea 27 months. Proportions of Ocean steamers. Sebastian de Elcano, Magellan's lieutenant, doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and on September 7, 1522, the San Vittoria anchored at St. Lucar, near Seville, Spain; the first circumnavigation uniform depth of somewhat over 2,000 fathoms; upon this the transatlantic cables have been laid. A similar investigation is now being made of the bed of the North Pacific. The United States steamer Tuscarora, Commander Belknap, has ascertained that the depth of water gradually increases with a gentle slope from a point 115 mile
gales, waves 40 feet in hight have been measured off the Cape of Good Hope, while those off Cape Horn were 32 feet. The velocity of ocean storm-waves in the North Atlantic is about 32 miles an hour, and that recorded by Captain Wilkes for the Pacific Ocean is 26 1/3 miles. In an Atlantic storm the breadth of the waves, measured from crest to crest, is about 600 feet. Some sixty years since a cotton-mill was built on a rocking barge, the machinery to be moved by the force of the waves. Sence as to inundate some of the smaller islands, and its oscillations were observable for three days. At Yokohama, Japan, more than 10,500 miles from Arica, an enormous wave poured in on the 14th of August; the hour is not given. In the South Pacific the wave reached the Marquesas and adjacent groups shortly before midnight; some were entirely submerged. It approached the Samoa or Navigator's Islands about half past 2 in the morning of the 14th, and the sea, after rising to an unpreceden