The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-03-08


fore the Virginia Alpha Of the Phi Reta Kappa Society In
the chapel Of William and Mary College, Ia the city 81
Williamsburg, by Hugh Blair 0rigsby. j. W. Randolph
Richmond Va. 1883.
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Army Meteorological Register for tOe1re gears, from si3
to 1854, inclusive compiled from observations made by
the officers of the medical department Of the the
military posts Of the United Sates prepared under the
direction of Brevet Brgadier General Thomas Lawson,
Surgeon General United States army published by author
ity of Hon. Jefferson Davis Secretary of War; Washing
ton; A. 0. II. Nicholson, Public Printer.
II for remark by the least oservant that the gov
eminent of the United States is greatly expedng the ad
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emineny practical character 1t will furnish the solution
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medical bureau and enable its chief oresee the OF
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spend bis labor bis To the engineer, whose
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alone win explain this remark BY referring To the
chart soherma lines for the year. II viii be that the
line connecting the points having the annual tempera
Of 65 deg nearly coinciden with that by which the See
rotary OF War has proposed to turn the flank Of the mountain
II Psso in carrying the railroad TO the Pacific, furnish
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undertaking than the buffalo tracks the plains
suggested BY an eminent member OF Congress- year
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The responsibility and much Of the labor In preparing
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geon United States army The result however, spesk,
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