

EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS FOR A RAILROAD ROUTE FROM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO THE 



PACIFIC OCEAN. WAR DEPARTMENT. 



ROUTE NEAR THE THIRTY-FIFTH PARALLEL, EXPLORED BY LIEUTENANT A. W. WHIPPLE, TOPO- 

 GRAPHICAL ENGINEERS, IN 1853 AND 1854. 



REPORT 



OH- 



THE BOTANY OF THE EXPEDITION. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 

 1856. 



