 | Frederick Schwatka - 1898 - 466 strani
...giving about twenty hours of daylight, and diffuse twilight the remainder of the time. Notwithstanding the marked variations in the climate Alaska is essentially...magnificent. The soil is rich, though in the heavily timbered region it is shallow, and from the most eastern point of the territory to Kodiak root crops are easily... | |
 | 1898 - 1272 strani
...so rich as those of Southern Alaska." Miner W. Bruce, long a resident of these coast lands, says : " The great precipitation and humidity of the atmosphere...mantle of perennial green. Vegetation is dense and forests magnificent. The soil is rich, though in the heavily timbered section it is shallow ; and from... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1898 - 880 strani
...so rich as those of Southern Alaska." Miner W. Bruce, long a resident of these coast lands, says : "The great precipitation and humidity of the atmosphere...in Southern Alaska cause the entire coast region to bo clothed in a mantle of perennial greon. Vegetation is dense and forests magnificent. The soil is... | |
 | Frederick Schwatka - 1900 - 454 strani
...giving about twenty hours of daylight, and diffuse twilight the remainder of the time. Notwithstanding the marked variations in the climate Alaska is essentially...Alaska cause the entire coast region to be clothed in a mautle of perennial green. Vegetation is dense and the forests magnificent. The soil is rich, though... | |
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... winter to summer are rapid, owing to the great increase in the length of the day. In May the sun rises at about 3 am and sets about 9 pm In June it rises about 1:30 in the morning and sets at 10:30 pm, giving about twenty hours of daylight, and diffuse... 