Alaska: Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan ArchipelagoD. Lothrop, 1885 - 333 strani Author's letters to various newspapers on her two summer cruises in 1883-84 assembled and amplified by reference to published information to form an informative tourist guide to the region. |
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... whole 580,107 square miles of the territory are almost as good as unexplored , and among the islands of the archipelago over 7,000 miles of coast are untouched and primeval forests . The Pribyloff or Seal Islands have usurped all ...
... whole 580,107 square miles of the territory are almost as good as unexplored , and among the islands of the archipelago over 7,000 miles of coast are untouched and primeval forests . The Pribyloff or Seal Islands have usurped all ...
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... whole trip if we did not immediately embark for the opposite shore . The dock hands came to know us , the pilots touched their hats to us , the agents fled from their ticket - offices at sight of us , and I think even the custom - house ...
... whole trip if we did not immediately embark for the opposite shore . The dock hands came to know us , the pilots touched their hats to us , the agents fled from their ticket - offices at sight of us , and I think even the custom - house ...
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... whole Olympic range stood like a sapphire wall across the Straits , and the Angels ' Gate gave a clear view of more azure slopes and snow - tipped summits through that gap in the mountain front . Instead of the trim propeller Idaho ...
... whole Olympic range stood like a sapphire wall across the Straits , and the Angels ' Gate gave a clear view of more azure slopes and snow - tipped summits through that gap in the mountain front . Instead of the trim propeller Idaho ...
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... whole place stands as it was left , the cabins and works dropping slowly to decay . Even the quarry from which the fine stone was taken for the United States Mint at San Francisco is aban- doned , and its broken derricks and refuse ...
... whole place stands as it was left , the cabins and works dropping slowly to decay . Even the quarry from which the fine stone was taken for the United States Mint at San Francisco is aban- doned , and its broken derricks and refuse ...
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... whole seventy miles of the railroad , with all the timber and mineral included . The great Wellington mines have had their strikes , and after the last one the white workmen were sup- planted by Chinese , who , though wanting the brawn ...
... whole seventy miles of the railroad , with all the timber and mineral included . The great Wellington mines have had their strikes , and after the last one the white workmen were sup- planted by Chinese , who , though wanting the brawn ...
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Alaska Alaska Commercial Company anchor archipelago Baranoff beach beautiful blankets boats bracelets cannery canoes Captain carved cedar channel Chatham Strait chief Chilkat Chilkat River Chilkoot Inlet civilized coal coast command cruise curios deck district dollars eagle feet fish fishery forest Fort Wrangell front fur company Glacier Bay gold governor ground Haidas head Hooniah Howkan Hudson Bay Hudson Bay Company hundred Idaho Indians inlet Juneau Kaigahnee Kasa-an Kloh-Kutz Kootznahoo land Lynn Canal Metlakatlah miles miners mines mission moraine morning mountain MUIR GLACIER natives numbers officers picturesque quartz rancherie River Russian Russian America salmon San Francisco sealskins sent Seward ship ship's shore side silver Sitka Siwash skins spoons steamer Stikine Stikine River Straits summer Taku Territory Thlinkets thousand tide totem poles town trade treaty tribes trip Tyee United village wharf Wrangell Yukon
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Stran 317 - The uncivilized tribes will be subject to such laws and regulations as the United States may, from time to time, adopt in regard to aboriginal tribes of that country.
Stran 314 - 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 318 - When this convention shall have been duly ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, on the one part, and on the other by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington within three months from the date hereof, or sooner, if possible.
Stran 319 - And whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at Washington on this twentieth day of June, by William H.
Stran 315 - 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 above mentioned, shall be formed by a line parallel to the windings of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance...
Stran 319 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Treaty to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Stran 315 - ... 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...
Stran 324 - And that either of the justices of the Supreme Court, as well as judges of the District Courts, shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus, for the purpose of an inquiry into the cause of commitment.
Stran 315 - ... 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.
Stran 313 - By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. Whereas a treaty between the United States of America and His Majesty the...