Alaska Its Waters Land And Life An Illustrated Lecture
Alaska Its Waters Land And Life An Illustrated Lecture
John Edward Bennett
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Waters of the Lewis-Yukon. ^^HIS vast region of the far north has had always a kind V^ of grim interest for me; that wide empire of moss- grown, undulating, tenantle!>s plain, stretching away for thousands of square miles behind the bare cold coast which fronts the sea ; the great ocean of dark quiet water contrasting with the white splotches of floating ice, and beyond, the endless expanse of frozen sea, still and white, broken by bergs and cliffs, spreading away to the pole — these are memori...es ineradicable from the mind which has once beheld them. Our course now lies toward the interior of Alaska, however, and to reach this, the most traversable highway is the great Yukon, which, rising in the mountains guarding the southeast coast, makes a great curve, analogous to the shape of the shore, and, after flowing over 2, 200 miles, joins the waters of the Bering Sea. The short rivers on the coast are mostly swift* and unnavigable, but the Yukon can be followed in boats from the foot of the Kotusks to St.
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