 | Giacomo Costantino Beltrami - Europe - 1828 - 566 pages
...river which are most in a right line with its mouth should be considered as its principal sources, and particularly when they issue from a cardinal point and flow to the one directly opposite. This theory appears conformable to nature and reason ; and upon this principle we should proceed in... | |
 | Minnesota - 1860 - 252 pages
...right line with its mouth, should be considered as its principal sources, and particularly when the}7 issue from a cardinal point and flow to the one directly opposite," he maintained to be the head of the Red River of the North. This lake he also described as supplying... | |
 | Edward Duffield Neill - History - 1882 - 1010 pages
...river which are most in a right line with its mouth should be considered as its principal sources, and particularly when they issue from a cardinal point and flow to the one directly opposite. This theory appeals conformable to nature and reason; and upon this princiole we should proceed in... | |
 | Newton Horace Winchell - Geology - 1891 - 448 pages
...of the longest continuous channel.'' ••The sources of a river which are in a right line with ite mouth, particularly when they issue from a cardinal...the largest lake: should be the inner flanks of the hights of the hind surrounding it; should lie the source, because it was next to the historic pass.... | |
 | Newton Horace Winchell - Geology - 1891 - 464 pages
...oceans of the earth, or whence came the oceans.) ••The head of the longest continuous channel." '•The sources of a river which are in a right line...particularly when they issue from a cardinal point and How to the one directly opposite." Other authorities, some remote, and but a few reliable, suggest... | |
 | Minnesota Historical Society - Minnesota - 1893 - 466 pages
...All our rivers have their source in the clouds."2 " The head of the longest continuous channel." " The sources of a river which are in a right line with...from a cardinal point and flow to the one directly opposite."3 ' ' The true source of a river is a point at the remotest distance from its mouth, but... | |
 | Jacob Vradenberg Brower - Mississippi River - 1893 - 470 pages
...All our rivers have their source in the clouds."2 " The head of the longest continuous channel." " The sources of a river which are in a right line with...from a cardinal point and flow to the one directly opposite."3 ' ' The true source of a river is a point at the remotest distance from its irouth, but... | |
 | Jacob Vradenberg Brower - Mississippi River - 1893 - 470 pages
...All our rivers have their source in the clouds."2 " The head of the longest continuous channel." " The sources of a river which are in a right line with...particularly when they issue from a cardinal point and now to the one directly opposite."3 ' ' The true source of a river is a point at the remotest distance... | |
 | Itasca State Park (Minn.) - 1904 - 302 pages
...the oceans of the earth, or whence came the oceans.) "The head of the longest continuous channel." "The sources of a river which are in a right line...authorities, some remote, and but a few reliable, surest that the source must be a lake ; must be the largest lake ; should be the inner flanks of the... | |
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The sources of a river which are in a right line with its mouth, particularly when they issue from a cardinal point and flow to the one directly opposite. 