 We have now got into a country which presents little to our view, but scenes of barrenness and desolation; and see no encouraging prospects that it will terminate. Having proceeded (by the course of this river) about two thousand three hundred miles,...  Gass's Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition - Page 87by Patrick Gass - 1904 - 298 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 pages
...buffaloe attempt an attack. " " Monday, {27l't. May. We have now got into a country which presents litfle to our view, but scenes of barrenness and desolation...prospects that it will terminate. Having proceeded (by tbe course of this river) about two thousand three hundred miles, it may therefore not be improper... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 688 pages
...the animal creation. Monday, 27th May. — We have now got into a country which presents bule to off view, but scenes of barrenness and desolation ; and...prospects that it will terminate. Having proceeded (by tint course of this river the Missouri) about two was, it should appear, in a subordinate Mation .... | |
 | 1809 - 878 pages
...suddenly wheel and fly off in case the wounded buffaloe attempt an attack. " *' J\fondcty, %ltli. Jlfay. We have now got into a country which presents little to our view, hut scenes of barrenness and desolation ; and see no encouraging prospects that it will terminate.... | |
 | Patrick Gass - Americana - 1847 - 248 pages
...encamped cm the South side in a small grove of timber; the first we had seen during the day. M jndiy 27. We have now got into a country which presents little...observations respecting the country we have passed. From the mouth of the Missouri to that of the river Plane, a distance of more than six hundred miles,... | |
 | Paul Russell Cutright - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 548 pages
...arid, sterile 1 Coues, I, 324n. 2 Early Western Travels, XXIII, 61. land. To sergeant Gass, it was "a country which presents little to our view but scenes of barrenness and desolation."2 Whitehouse declared that it was "too much of a desert to be inhabited, or cultivated"... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Gary E. Moulton, Thomas W. Dunlay - History - 1996 - 352 pages
...party's Elk Fawn Rapids, now Bird Rapids. 4. In Fergus County, Montana, above the rapids. Monday 2 jth. We have now got into a country which presents little...desolation; and see no encouraging prospects that it will terminate.1 Having proceeded (by the course of this river) about two thousand three hundred miles,... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Gary E. Moulton - History - 2003 - 478 pages
...can ever be Settled, as it is deficent in water. Timber & too Steep to be tilled. May 27, 1805 [GASS] We have now got into a country which presents little...terminate. Having proceeded (by the course of this riverl about two thousand three hundred miles, it may therefore not be improper to make two or three... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - History - 2004 - 572 pages
...can ever be Settled, as it is deficent in water, Timber & too Steep to be tilled. May 27, 1805 [GASS] We have now got into a country which presents little...observations respecting the country we have passed . . . From the confluence of the river Platte with the Missouri to the Sterile desert we lately entered... | |
 | Patrick Lee - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 244 pages
...perceptible descent. Its general width is about 200 yards. . .bordered by high rugged bluffs (Gass): We have now got into a country which presents little...see no encouraging prospects that it will terminate. . . . May 28 (Clark): The shoaley places are verry numerous and some bad to get around we have to make... | |
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