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Page 169
... River . In the desert lying between the San Bernardino Mountains on the one hand and the Superstition and Chocolate Mountains on the other was a great salt marsh known as the Salton Sink or the Salton Basin . This sink in the most ...
... River . In the desert lying between the San Bernardino Mountains on the one hand and the Superstition and Chocolate Mountains on the other was a great salt marsh known as the Salton Sink or the Salton Basin . This sink in the most ...
Page 178
... River a short distance above its juncture with the main stream . The original significance of this Indian place name has been lost , perhaps beyond recovery , and the various meanings ascribed to it , such as " river of the big bend ...
... River a short distance above its juncture with the main stream . The original significance of this Indian place name has been lost , perhaps beyond recovery , and the various meanings ascribed to it , such as " river of the big bend ...
Page 189
... river on the west bank above Trenton and to run in a northwesterly direc- tion almost parallel with the river and as far as a man could walk in three days . Penn and a party of Indians started at Neshaming Creek and began to walk ...
... river on the west bank above Trenton and to run in a northwesterly direc- tion almost parallel with the river and as far as a man could walk in three days . Penn and a party of Indians started at Neshaming Creek and began to walk ...
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