. Amérique latine, pittoresque et descriptif. rmouslyprofitable. Le nom est dérivé de l'IndianAl-ay-ck-sJta ^, signifiant la grande terre. Besidesits grande étendue de terre ferme, il comprend quelques fifteenthousand, et son énorme river, au Yukon, qui se jettent dans la mer de Béring a un delta soixante mileswide à son embouchure, est de trois mille milles de long, andis navigable sur près de deux mille kilomètres. Productivité AlthoughAlaskas berealized semble commence à peine, et pourtant, il a donné dans l'or et de fourrures, de poissons et d'autres produits, depuis le d'j), plus de 150 000 $,-000. Dans l'Alaska, l'itinéraire d'explo

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. America, picturesque and descriptive. rmouslyprofitable. The name is derived from the IndianAl-ay-ck-sJta, meaning the ^ Great land. Besidesits large extent of main land, it includes some fifteenthousand islands, and its enormous river, the Yukon, flowing into the Behring Sea, has a delta sixty mileswide at its mouth, is three thousand miles long, andis navigable for almost two thousand miles. AlthoughAlaskas productiveness seems just beginning to berealized, yet it has yielded in gold and furs, fish andother products, since the j)urchase, over $150, 000, -000. Within Alaska, the route of exploration continuesthrough Clarence Strait to the Alexander Archipel-ago, comprising several thousand islands, many ofwhich are mountainous, and about eleven hundredof the larger ones have been charted. Here is FortWrangell, seven hundred miles from Victoria, onone of the islands, a little settlement named afterliaron Wrangell, the Russian Governor of Alaska in183-i. Upon landing, the visitors see the Indians and Sitka, niasu, from the Sa. BOUND T(^ ALASKA. 501 tlioir tliicf cuiittsity, the totem ]ioIes, erected infront of tlieir houses, and carved witli rude figuresemblematic of the OAvner and his ancestors. Thesepoles arc twenty to sixty feet in heiglit, and two tofive feet in diameter. The natives are divi(Ud intoclans, of which the Whale, the Eagle, the Wolf andthe Raven arc the chief representatives and are saidto liavc been the progenitors. These are also carvedon the pulfs ;unl show the intermarriages of ances-tors, the leading families having the most elaboratepoles. Beyond Fort Wrangell arc Soukhoi Channeland Frederick Sound, leading into Chatham Strait, having on its -western side Baranoff Island, on theouter edge of which is Sitka Sound. Here is Sitkathe capital of Alaska, in a well-protected bay dotted?with pleasant islands in front and having suow-cov-cred mountains for a high background. AlexanderBaranoff founded the town in 1804, the first RussianGovernor of Alaska,

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