 Colorado is 1,500 feet wide, and flows at the rate of a mile and a half per hour. Its greatest depth in the channel, at the ford where we crossed, is four feet. The banks are low, not more than four feet high, and, judging from indications...  Notes of a Military Reconnaissance: From Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to ... - Page 99by United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers, William Hemsley Emory - 1848 - 614 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Baja Verapaz (Guatemala) - 1840 - 200 pages
...ten leagues. Its breadth varies, in its course, from 120 to 80 yards. The velocity of its current is at the rate of a mile and a half per hour ; its depth, from 6 to 24 feet. There are many islets or banks. There are seven shallows, with not more than... | |
 | William Hemsley Emory - 1848 - 758 pages
...exactly known, but it is variously represented at from four to seven day's journey. Persons ,'ound for Sonora from California, who do not mind a circuitous...channel, at the ford where we crossed, is four feet, 'l he ba-nks are low, not more than four feet high, and, judging from indications, si metimes, though... | |
 | George G. Foster - California - 1849 - 96 pages
...journey. Persons bound for Souora from California, who do not mind a circuitous route, should ascend to Gila as far as the Pimos village, and thence penetrate the province by way of Tucson. a mile and a half per hour. Its greatest depth in the channel at the ford where we crossed... | |
 | Industries - 1856 - 680 pages
...not exactly known, but it is variously represented at from four to seven days' journey. Persons bound for Sonora from California, who do not mind a circuitous...village, and thence penetrate the province by way of Tucson." In the construction of a railway by either of the routes indicated, the means of procuring... | |
 | North American review - 1856 - 610 pages
...not exactly known, but it is variously represented at from four to seven days' journey. Persons bound for Sonora from California, who do not mind a circuitous...village, and thence penetrate the province by way of Tucson." In the construction of a railway by either of the routes indicated, the means of procuring... | |
 | Barnard Shipp - Biography & Autobiography - 1881 - 720 pages
...north of this butte, and the point of junction was below. "At the ford the Colorado is fifteen hundred feet wide and flows at the rate of a mile and a half...channel at the ford where we crossed, is four feet. The banks are low. not more than four feet high. The ford is entered at the lower extremity of the... | |
 | Samuel T. Black - Imperial County (Calif.) - 1913 - 574 pages
...march, the writer goes on : "November 25, 1855. At the ford the Colorado is one thousand five hundred feet wide and flows at the rate of a mile and a half...depth in the channel at the ford where we crossed being four feet. The banks are low, not more than four feet high and, judging from indication sometimes,... | |
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