This northern route, then, passes over 

 considerable portion of its extent. Wood 

 upon it than upon any of the other route 

 Stevens, are not impracticable for a railroa 



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n bordering t 



ilia. The Hudson's Bay Company 



In view of the facts which we have just stftb ..■<!. it b« 

 distributed from the Gulf of Mexico to the great lafc 

 of travel to the Pacific sensibly to the north. Bnl 

 center of population is west of Pittsburgh ; of prmli 

 of these centers is slowly to the west and to the uon 

 they will be near Chicago. Their Hue of direction n 

 which villages, towns, and cities will arise, a 



Beyond and above all t 

 trol, these great I 



>rking o 

 t forces of nature, their grand 



cultivable and inhabitable a 



Columbia River, and remember withal that t 

 out valleys for the passage of great rivers 

 direction of the movement of the centers i 





Cascade range to the splendid h irb « s ot P ig -i - 

 villages will first arise, the strongest li 



