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deep and more, and comprising all manner of craft from the small 

 canoe to sliced sections of scows, have mostly disappeared, and in 

 their place we now find the gracefnl and nngraceful forms of 

 varying types of steamboat. It is no nncommon thing to find 

 five or more of those larger craft tied np at one time to tlie 



river front, and the amplitnde and majesty of the Mississippi boats 

 gain but little in a comparison with some of the larger craft of 

 the Yukon River. Overhung signs call attention to the flying- 

 queens of the river, the Bonanza King, Canadian, and Sibyl, and 

 thousands are offered upon the result of the race to the AVliite 



