44 GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [bt,ll.187. 



the U. S. schooner Fenimm-e Coo2)ei\ The expedition is referred to as 

 the North Pacific Exploring Expedition and also as the Ringgold and 

 Rodgcrs Exploring Expedition. The resulting maps were published 

 l)y \\w riiited States Ilydrographic Office, but the journals exist only 

 in inaimscrii)t and no general account or report, so far as the writer 

 knows, has ever been published. See United States Hydrographic 

 Office charts 8, 54, 55, 60, and ^'^. 



Pexder, 1868. 



Staff Commander David Pender, R. N., made a survey of Portland 

 canal and vicinity in 1868. This was a survey along the boundary of 

 the then newly purchased Alaska. The resulting map was published 

 as a fly leaf attached to British Admiralt}^ chart 2431. 



Peters and Brooks, 1898-99. 



In the summer of 1898 a party of the United States Geological 

 Survey in charge of Mr. William John Peters, topographer, with 

 whom Avent Mr. Alfred Hulse Brooks as geologist, made a reconnais- 

 sance of parts of the White and Tanana river basins. A report on 

 this woi-k was made by Mr. Brooks and published in the Twentieth 

 Annual Report of the Geological Survey, Part VII, pp. 425-494. 



In 1899 Peters and Brooks continued their explorations, going from 

 the head of Lynn canal northwestward and northward to Eagle, on 

 the Yukon. The report on this work was written by Brooks and 

 published in the Twenty -first Annual Report of the Geological Survey, 

 Part II, pp. 331-391. 



Petrof, 1880. 



Ivan Petrof Avas special agent of the Tenth Census (1880) for Alaska 

 and prepared a Report on the Population, Industries, and Resources 

 of the territory, which forms 189 pages of Volume VIII of the Tenth 

 Census of the United States, published in 1884. This report and two 

 general maps of Alaska issued by the Census Office, one dated 1880, 

 the other 1882, have l)een most useful and helpful in making this dic- 

 tionar3\ The references to Petrof are chiefly to these two maps. 

 References to Bancroft's History of Alaska are usuall}^ credited to 

 Petrof, who wrote that work. 



A preliminary report on che population, industries, and resources 

 of Alaska was published early in 1881 as House of Representative Ex. 

 Doc. No. 40, Eorty-sixth Congress, third session. In this report is a 

 general map of Alaska showing Petrof \s route of travel in his census 

 work. He was at Kodiak, the Shumagins, Sannak, Belkofski, Una- 

 laska, Unimak, Atka, Pribilof islands, and St. Michael, and traveled 

 in western Alaska from St. Michael to Kodiak, including journeys for 

 considerable distances up the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers. 



