Along Alaska's Great River: A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British Northwest Territory and in the Territory of AlaskaHenry, 1898 - 426 psl. Along Alaska's Great Rive. A Popular Account of the Travels of Alaska Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, From Its Source to Its Mouth, In the British North-West Territory, And in the Territory of Alaska. Together with the Latest Information on the Klondike Country |
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Along Alaska's Great River– A Popular Account of the Travels of Alaska ... Frederick Schwatka Visos knygos peržiūra - 1900 |
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Alaska Aleutian Aleutian Islands Aleuts Alexander Archipelago animal Anvik Arctic Ayan bank beach Behring boat camp canoe channel Chilkat Chilkat Inlet Chilkoot coast Company craft Creek Dayay distance district drifted Eskimo expedition explored feet fish flat floating Fort Yukon furs gale glacier gold half hills Hudson Bay Hudson Bay Company hundred Inlet islands journey Kadiak Klondike Lake Lake Bennett land latter logs lower ramparts Michael's miles moose mosquitoes mountain mouth natives nearly Nuklakayet Nulato o'clock old Fort Selkirk old Fort Yukon party passed Pelly poles raft rapids reached region Russian sailed salmon savage sea-otter shore side Sitka skins snow spruce Stewart River Strait stream swift swift current Tahk-heesh Tahltan River Tanana Telegraph Creek Territory Teslin timber tion trail trees tribe upper valley vessel wind winter Yukon River
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403 psl. - ... north latitude, and between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich,) the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude; from this last mentioned point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point of intersection of the 1416t degree of west longitude, (of the same meridian;) and...
403 psl. - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and the 133d degree of west longitude, (meridian of Greenwich.) the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
403 psl. - ... point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude (of the same meridian); and, finally, from the said point of intersection, the said meridian line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean, shall form the limit between the Russian and British possessions on the continent of America to the north-west.
403 psl. - ... degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned...
29 psl. - ... bottom, though there must have been fully thirty or forty feet of water where we made our observations. On one of the large islands in Sitka harbor, called Japanese Island, an old Niphon junk was cast, early in the present century, and her small crew of Japanese were rescued by the Russians. Sitka has been so often described that it is unnecessary to do more than refer the reader to other accounts of the place.
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9 psl. - The people of the United States will not be quick to take to the idea that the volume of water in an Alaskan river is greater than that discharged by the mighty Mississippi ; but it is entirely within the bounds of honest statement to say that the Yukon river . . . discharges every hour one-third more water than the
406 psl. - Russian-American treaties of 1824 and 1825 respectively, following the summits of a chain of mourn tains supposed to run parallel with the coast at a distance not greater than three marine leagues from the sea between the head of Portland Canal and Mount St. Elias. The Arctic division is situated almost entirely above the Arctic circle and is known to explorers only from observations made along the seacoast. The interior consists doubtless of frozen plains and low ranges of hills, intersected by...
406 psl. - Aliaska peninsula down to Zakharof Bay, with the adjacent islands, the Kadiak group of islands, the islands and coasts of Cook's Inlet, the Kenai peninsula, and Prince William Sound, with the rivers running into them. The main Alaskan range bounds this division in the north and west. Its eastern limit is the one hundred and forty-first meridian, which intersects the coast-line in the vicinity of Mount St.
400 psl. - Rivalry in the business of purchasing sea-otter skins has induced the various firms to send agents with small assortments of goods to all the hunting-grounds, as an inducement to the members of parties to squander some of their earnings in advance. The method of killing the sea-otter is virtually the same in all sections frequented by it. The killing of fur-seals is accomplished entirely on land, and has been reduced almost to a science of the greatest dispatch and system. The able-bodied Aleuts...