The North-West Passage by land / Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains

by Viscount William Fitzwilliam Milton; Walter B. Cheadle

[21] Vide “Overland Route to British Columbia,” by Henry Youle Hind, M.A., F.R.G.S., and “Narrative of Canadian Exploring Expedition,” by the same Author; also Captain Palliser’s Report in the “Journal of the Royal Geographical Society for 1860.”

[22] Vide Dr. Rathray, “Vancouver Island, and British Columbia.”

[23] A grass-widow in America is a woman who has separated or been divorced from her husband.

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General Map of BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.

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