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along the Arctic coast from the mouth of the Mackenzie river to Point 

 Barrow. Prior to their journey the coast line from Return reef to 

 Point Barrow was a blank on the maps. They left the Mackenzie 

 mouth on Jul}^ 9 in two open boats and arrived at Point Barrow on 

 August 4, the last part of the journey being overland. For an account 

 of their work see Simpson (Thomas), Narrative of Discoveries on the 

 North Coast of America, 8"^, London, 1843; also Journal Royal Geog. 

 Soc, 8°, London, 1838, Vol. VIII, pp. 213-22.5. 



Dixon, 1785-1788. 



Capt. George Dixon, commanding the ship Queen Charlotte^ made a 

 trading voj^age from England to northwest America and round the 

 world in 1 78.5-1788 in company with Portlock. (See Portlock.) Dixon 

 published an account of this voyage entitled A Voyage Round the 

 World, etc., l"", London, 1789. 



DdKosHiN, 1848. 



Peter P. Doroshin, a mining engineer, was sent out from Russia in 

 .1847 by the Russian American Company to their American possessions 

 with Captain Riedell in the ship Atla, to examine and report on the 

 gold resources of the colony. He visited Baranof island and Cook 

 inlet and examined these places, and also visited California. His 

 results were published in the Russian Mining Journal for 1866, No. 1 

 (Part V), p. 136; No. 2 (Part VI), pp. 277-282; also No. 3 (Part III), 

 pp. 365-401. The last contains descriptions of Prince William sound 

 and Copper river. 



Douglas, 1788-89. See Mkares. 



Eldridge and Muldrow, 1898. 



Mr. George Homans Eldridge, geologist of the United States 

 Geological Survey, made a reconnaissance of the Sushitna Ixxsin in 

 the summer of 1898. He was accompanied by Mr. Robert Muldrow, 

 topographer. Their explorations extended from the head of Cook 

 inlet up the Sushitna nearly to latitude 64°. For their results see 

 Twentieth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, 

 Part VII, pp. 1-29. 



Elliott, 1872-1876. 



Mr. Henry Wood Elliott was, in 1872-73, an assistant agent of the 

 Treasury Department on the Pribilof islands. In the summer of 1874 

 he was a special agent of the Treasury Department, and with Lieut. 

 Washburn Maynard, U. S. N., visited in the United States Revenue 

 Cutter Reliance, Capt. Baker commanding, Sitka, Kodiak, Unalaska, 

 the Pribilof islands, St. Matthew, and St. Lawrence. In November, 

 1874, he submitted a report, which was printed by the Treasury 

 Department in 1875 and by Congress in 1876. He also wrote a mono- 



