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sliin, ill active ojDerations at the head of the inlet on the Kaknoo 

 River, and in the Keuai Mountains and Prince William or Choogatch 

 Alps. Gold was found, hut in such small quantities, compared 

 with the labor of getting it, that the ardor of the Russians soon 

 cooled, and nothing as yet has resulted from the prospecting of our 

 own miners in this district, who have been all over these Slavonian, 

 trails since the transfer. 

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