AND

VINNO

1TS RESOURCES.

BY

WILLIAM H. DALL,

DIRECTOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC CORPS OF THE LATE WESTERN UNION
TELEGRAPH EXPEDITION.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

WILLIAM H. DALL,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Norwood Press:
Berwick & Smith, Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

To the Memory

OF

ROBERT KENNICOTT,

FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC CORPS,

This Work is reverently Dedicated.

HE JOINED TO A NOBLE AND GENEROUS HEART AN ENTHUSIASTIC LOVE OF NATURE; DEFYING IN THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE

THE MIASMA OF THE TROPICS AND THE rigors of tHE

ARCTIC WINTER; MANFULLY ENDURING ISOLA

TION, SICKNESS, AND PRIVATION, AND

DYING IN THE FIELD, A MARTYR

TO THE CONSCIENTIOUS DIS

CHARGE OF HIS

DUTY.

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