EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS FOR A RAILROAD ROUTE FROM TIIE MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
WAR DEPARTMENT. 
ROUTE NEAR THE THIRTY-FIFTH PARALLEL, UNDER THE COMMAND OF LIEUT. A. W. WHirPLE, 
TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS, IN 1853 AND 1854. 
R E P 0 R T 
ox 
THE TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES 
CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY. 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
1856. 
