 | Jessy Quinn Thornton - 1864 - 430 pages
...which is not visible. From the rise and fall of the tides (eighteen feet), every facility is afforded for the erection of works for a great maritime nation....affords as many sites for water-power, as any other." Such testimony, aside from its official character, as coming from one who has examined the Bay of San... | |
 | John Ross Browne, United States. Department of the Treasury - 1868 - 756 pages
...receiving the largest class of vessels, and without a danger in them which is not visible. From the rise and fall of the tides (18 feet) every facility...their extent, we append a tabular statement of the sliore line, prepared by James S. Lawson, esq., the efficient assistant of the United States Coast... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1868 - 726 pages
...vessels, and without a danger in them which is not visible. From tlie rise and tall of the tides (Is feet) every facility is offered for the erection of...idea of these waters, and their extent, we append a tabuler statement of the shore line, prepared by James S. Lawson, csq., the efficient assistant of... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Treasury, John Ross Browne - 1868 - 764 pages
...receiving the largest class of vessels, and without a danger in them which is not visible. From t'.ie rise and fall of the tides (18 feet) every facility...for water-power as any other. To furnish a better ide« of these waters, and their extent, we append a tabular statement of the shore line, prepared... | |
 | John Ross Browne - 1869 - 878 pages
...receiving the largest class of vessels, and without a danger in them, which is not visible. From tlie rise and fall of the tides (18 feet) every facility...assistant of the United States Coast Survey, now employed in making a survey thereof: Shore-line of the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty inlet, Puget sound,... | |
 | Frederick Bartlett Goddard - 1869 - 684 pages
...receiving the largest class of vessels, and without a danger in them which is not visible. From the rise and fall of the tides (18 feet) every facility is offered for the erection of works for a great marítimo nation. Tbc country also affords as many utcs tor water power as any other. ч According... | |
 | Immigration Aid Society of North-Western Washington - 1877 - 114 pages
...receiving the largest class of vessels, and without a danger in them which is not visible. From the rise and fall of the tides (18 feet) every facility is offered for the ereotlon of works for a great maritime nation. The country also affords as many sites for water-power... | |
 | Washington. Governor - 1885 - 70 pages
...them that is not visible. From the rise and fall of the tide (18 feet), every facility is afforded for the erection of works for a great maritime nation. The country also affords as many sites for water power as any other. On this sound are already situated thriving towns and cities, bidding for... | |
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... danger exists, and it may be safely navigated throughout. No part of the world affords finer inland sounds, or a greater number of harbors, than are found within the Straits of Juan de Fuca, capable of receiving the largest class of vessels, and without... 