Chapter I: Front Matter

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ALASKA

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Lothrop’s Historical Library.

EDITED BY ARTHUR GILMAN, M. A.

=AMERICAN PEOPLE.= By Arthur Gilman, M. A. =INDIA.= By Fannie Roper Feudge. =EGYPT.= By Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement. =CHINA.= By Robert K. Douglas. =SPAIN.= By Prof. James Herbert Harrison. =SWITZERLAND.= By Miss Harriet D. S. MacKenzie. =JAPAN, and its Leading Men.= By Charles Lanman. =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

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“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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