Download or read book Memoir, Historical and Political, of the Northwest Coast of North America, and the Adjacent Territories written by Robert Greenhow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoir, Historical and Political, of the Northwest Coast of North America, and the Adjacent Territories: Illustrated by a Map and a Geographical View of Those Countries I. The northwest coast is the expression usually employed in the Uni-5 ted States, at the present time, to distinguish the vast portion of the American continent, which extends north of the 40th parallel of latitude from the Pacific to the great dividing ridge of the Rocky Mountains, to gether with the contiguous islands in that ocean. The southern part of this territory, which is drained almost entirely by the River Columbia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.