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Alaska: Its History and Resources, Gold Fields, Routes and Scenery Miner Wait Bruce Predogled ni na voljo - 2018 |
Alaska: Its History and Resources, Gold Fields, Routes and Scenery Miner Wait Bruce Predogled ni na voljo - 2018 |
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Alaska animals appearance Arctic bear become Bering boat British called camps carry channel City claims coast Company contain covered Creek discovery distance dollars entire Eskimos established extending feet fifty fish five forty four Glacier gold Government ground head hundred hundred miles Indians interesting interior islands journey Juneau killed Klondike known Lake land light located means miles miners mining months mountains mouth natives natural nearly never passed past persons places portion present prospecting quantities reached region reindeer reported result rich River rocks route Russian salmon seal season secure seems seen shore side Sitka sixty skin Sound spring steamer streams summer Summit supply taken Territory thousand timber town trail twenty United usually vast vessels whale whole winter wood Yukon
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Stran 213 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes 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...
Stran 213 - III. The line of demarcation between the possessions of the High Contracting Parties, upon the coast of the continent, and the islands of America to the north-west, shall be drawn...
Stran 213 - That whenever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction parallel to the coast from the 56th degree of north latitude to the point of intersection of the 141st 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...
Stran 213 - 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...
Stran 213 - ... 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 shall be formed by a line parallel to the windings of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom.
Stran 213 - 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.
Stran 235 - The volume presents the record of a journey undertaken in the summer of 1898 to the gold-fields of Alaska. Mrs. Hitchcock's journal is a faithful record of her experiences, and is written in a vivacious manner and is full of interesting incidents. The volume is enriched by over 100 illustrations, and will contain an authoritative map of Alaska, showing the trails and steamboat routes to the gold-fields.
Stran 236 - CONTENTS : Portland, by Samuel T. Pickard ; Rutland, by Edwin D. Mead ; Salem, by George D. Latimer ; Boston, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Edward Everett Hale; Cambridge, by Samuel A.
Stran 236 - Where Ghosts Walk The Haunts of Familiar Characters in History and Literature. With 33 illustrations. 8°, gilt top, $2.50 " In this volume fascinating pictures are thrown upon the screen so rapidly that we have not time to have done with our admiration for one before the next one is encountered. . . . Travel of this kind does not weary. It fascinates.
Stran 78 - ... Here they are waylaid by the natives and slaughtered in great numbers for their hides. Deer forms one of the main food supplies of Alaska, and an effort is being made to make their killing unlawful for a term of years. Unless Congress authorizes this the extinction of the species will not be far off. They are hunted, in the rutting season, by a call made from a blade of grass placed between two strips of wood, which produces a very clever imitation of the cry of the deer. This call leads them...
Bibliografski podatki
| Naslov | Alaska: Its History and Resources, Gold Fields, Routes and Scenery |
| Avtor | Miner Wait Bruce |
| Izdaja | 2 |
| Založnik | G.P. Putnam's sons, 1899 |
| Vir izvirnika | Univerza v Michiganu |
| Pretvorjeno v digitalni zapis | 20 feb 2008 |
| Dolžina | 237 strani |
| Izvozi navedbo | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |