UVAQ cmc 

 then- ..^.m,..* 



The boundary 

 Alaaka b defined 



vat Britain, 



at ! aV 



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a far a* the point of 

 forty-flue CMC? 



i AJ^M tW ^^i M^at of taaanaetlaBi aVa said aaariaV 

 & wS ?^TteM and fony.an* dspea. 

 in a i iiinntahna a fcr as tbe fttiaan ocean, shall 



and British pos- 



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undaratood-l.that the 

 of Wale, bland shall belong 



b: 1 that wherever the unm 



in a direction parallel to the 



.The ATM of Alaska, a nearly M can 

 Mted. it 578.000 square mile*, over eleven 

 tea* * large as U 8tat 

 orral COM! HIM b 4,000 mile* lot.. 



'..-..- :, .' ..-.-' 

 U> MMBf between 10,000 and 12,000 



b drained principal 1 y by 

 t&w T.koorlTw. which rbea in the north western 



ml 



' 

 Mdf 



M the Territory into two nearly equal 

 Th* Yukon ranks among the great 



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 a fofMt-eovarad country 440,000 



' ' i! ', . - :-. 



Hoaaa. 1,000 milca from ita 

 iu tritaurbe are na< 



Kiwak art X5* S* 



.Baa north of the. 



YaJtoo. har* brra nariptd by steam launchea; 

 and the Kokfcwim. flowing into Bering Sea 

 oath of th* Yukon, drain* an arm of 800,000 

 aoaara mile*, and b aid to be navigable. Of 

 ""fTSi ^f^ to 0<lth * rf *" d outheaaV 



attR i * A ^ ij?ipl!ta ** 



MonaUlnn. The principal mountain systems 

 of Alack* extend nlou^ tho sou them coast, and 

 a partially Milimcrgedoontiiiiint i. >n <>f the same 



yten) f-'rtus the Alnitian I>l.-i ulmi- 



n'atini; iMiintN of this f?ret mountain ln-lt arc 



'<->" ' - '...', ... ( ai.a.la .lati- 



M. .iint 



ma. 18.088 f.-.-t (latitu.l- ii 17 



:. thr fnitcd Stat.-s. 

 X P**k aeveral >f which an- mon 

 than 15,000 feet hiu-h. roinhinc with thr lofty 

 -iiiniiiiis just named t> inakr t i 

 the moat rugged and inaccessible on th. 

 nent Mount Logan, named in honor of the 

 first director of the Geological Survey <' 

 ada, is. so far aa now known, th.- hjinaat peak 

 in North America. Its near- M ri\nl i- M<>unt. 

 Orizaba. Mexico, \\hi-h is I.,- :<K) and 



18,800 foot high. A l"fty peak west 

 in about latitude 68* :M) and 



is reportetl l>y tin- f n wh 



have seen it to rival Mount St. Klias in eleva- 

 tion. 



. The only a<tivc volcanoes in the 

 United States ar lea. In t!.. 



archipelago (where Sitka is siiuati-.i . on the 

 Alaskan i-nin-ula ami on th- Aleutian 1-lan.ls. 



.in- many mountains of rrn-nt volcanic 

 origin, al-out 10 of which I .11 . ruption 



'ic purchase of the Territory. S..\,ra| ,,f 

 these as Shbhaldhv on the i>lanl of Cniniak; 

 Makuskm. on I'lialnskii island : ai. 

 on a small inland of the same name, nl 

 miles west of 1'nalaskn are (xmstantly emitting 



steam, and occasionally have a violent erujition. 

 Recent examinations have shown that M. 

 Rlias is not volcanic, hut nirin to the 



upheaval of a block of I!H t hounded 



by fractures. 



i.lari.TH. The glaciers of Alaska are, with 

 ption of those of Grernlaiid, the largest 

 and most instructive in the northern h-ini- 

 The great glacier system to which they 

 uth in the Ili^h Sierra of 

 riiia, in about latitude :{? . and extends 

 northward along the Cordilleras, through west- 

 -outhi-rn Alaska to the western 

 extremitv of the Ala-Kan p.-nin-u!. 

 braces also some of the Aleutian Mand-. This 

 belt of snow fields and glaciers, 8,000 i 

 reaches its greatest development in t 

 region, where the mountains for 80 miles inland 

 fr-.m the coast are literally buried beneath vast 

 n/V*. or snow fields, from which strcarnlike 

 glaciers of the same type as those < 

 land flow both north and south. Those fl- 

 tout h are tniifh the larger, and In ances 



hare a length of over 50 miles. Many of the 

 ftouthward-flowing glaciers reach the sea, and, 

 breaking off, send thousands of icebergs afloat. 

 The best known of these tide-water glaciers 



Taku inlet and Glacier Bay. at 

 Tbited erery MMimn-r by hundreds of tourists. 

 Much largpf gla/ 1- r- of 'the same type oc 



' \ . .- Bay t 250 miles weal ofOkv 

 cier Bay. Still fart her* west, about the base of 

 Mount St. Klias, the alpine glaciers from the 

 north unite on a plain adjacent to the sea, and 

 form a plateau of ice, known as Malaspina gia- 

 nt is 1.500 square miles in area, and not 

 leas than 1,500 feet thick. The outer or seaward 



