12 SKETCH OF BERING SEA. 



The distance from Bering Strait to the southern 

 boundary of the Aleutian Chain is about 1,078 

 miles, and its greatest width from east to west 

 about 1,437 miles. 



Bering Strait. To the uortli is Bering Strait, fifty-eiglit miles 

 in width, but in its narrowest portion are situated 

 the two Diomede Islands. The shores of either 

 side of the strait are steep and rocky. 



Eastern bound- The castcm boundary of the sea begins in a 



ary of Bering Sea. 



lofty hill at Cape Prince of Wales, the western 

 limit of tlie continent of America and the eastern 

 limit of Bering Strait. From Cape Prince of 

 Wales the American coast stretches to the south- 

 ward in a line broken mainly by the dee^) inlets 

 of Norton Sound and Bristol Bay, between which 

 are Cape Romanzof, Kuskoquim Bay, and Cape 

 Newenham. The coast is generally low and 

 marshy, no hills of any considerable size being 

 visible. South of Bristol Bay it shoots out in 

 a southwesterly direction into the long, narrow 

 peninsula of Alasl^a, reaching westward almost 

 to the longitude of Cape Prince of Wales. The 

 chief rivers entering Bering Sea along this bound- 

 ary are the Yukon and the Kuskokuim. 

 Northern and Tlic northern and western boundary is in 



western boundary. _ , 



marked contrast witli the eastern. It is rugged 

 throughout, the mountains growing higher and 



