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Title: Alaska, Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago

Author: Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

Release date: August 11, 2016 [eBook #52777]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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ALASKA: The Sitkan Archipelago. By Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore.
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U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
Map of Alaska.
Compiled by W. H. Dall
1884.
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ALASKA
ITS SOUTHERN COAST
AND
THE SITKAN ARCHIPELAGO

BY
E. RUHAMAH SCIDMORE
WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS

“Berlin, Sept. 5.—We have seen of Germany enough to show that its climate is neither so genial, nor its soil so fertile, nor its resources of forests and mines so rich as those of Southern Alaska.”—William H. Seward—Travels Around the World, Part VI. chap. v. page 708.

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