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Reconnaissance views across the mountains of the Great Basin at the beginning of the work on the 39th Parallel Arc of Triangulation which extended from Atlantic to Pacific, at the time the longest arc of the parallel ever observed

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Reconnaissance views across the mountains of the Great Basin at the beginning of the work on the 39th Parallel Arc of Triangulation which extended from Atlantic to Pacific, at the time the longest arc of the parallel ever observed. Seeimage cgs05398.

Credit

NARA C&GS; Colllection

Location

Utah

Collection

Historic Coast & Geodetic Survey

Historic Maps

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Keywords

Coast and Geodetic Survey