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this date and October 3, 1778, Cook cruised northward and westward 

 along- the American coast to Icy cape, in the Arctic ocean, and 

 sketched the chief outlines of this coast, hitherto practically unknown. 

 Leaving Unalaska on October 27, 1778, he returned to the Hawaiian 

 islands, where he was killed by the natives on February l^t, 1779. 

 The British A dmiralty published in 1784-85 an account of this voyage 

 in three quarto volumes and a large atlas. 



CoxE, 1780. 

 Rev. William Coxe, archdeacon of Wilts, spent some time in St. 

 Petersburg prior to 1780 and while there specially interested himself 

 in the discoveries made by the Russians between Asia and America 

 between 1741 and the date of his writing. His results were published 

 in 1780 under the title Account of the Russian Discoveries between 

 Asia and America, etc. This passed through several editions, the third 

 appearing at London in 1787 and the fourth in 1803. Two French 

 translations appeared in 1781 and a German one in 1783. This is an 

 important work for the student of Alaskan exploration and geography. 

 In it are the tirst published accounts of the voyages of Shalaurof , 

 1761-1763 ; Sind, 1764-1768 ; and Krenitzin and Levashef , 1764-1771. 



Ball, 1865-189.5. 

 Dr W^illiam Healev Dall first went to Alaska in 1865, in the employ- 

 ment of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and from that 

 beo-innino- has become one of the foremost students, explorers 

 waiters, and authorities on Alaskan matters. His book Alaska and 

 Its Resources, published in 1870, remains to this day the most useful 

 handy reference book on Alaska. 



He came back to San Francisco in the autumn of 1865, returned to 

 Alaska in the spring of 1866, and remained in the Yukon country till 

 1868 when he came back and published Alaska and Its Resourc^^. 

 In 1871 he entered the Coast Survey and from August, 18 ^ to the 

 end of 1874 was engaged in reconnaissance surveys along the coast 

 from Sitka westward to the end of the Aleutian c^ain aiid nor h- 

 ward in Bering sea as far as Nunivak and the Pnbilof islands. W i h 

 him, as assistant, in 1871-72 was Mark Walrod Harrington Dall 

 returned to Washington at the end of 1874 and was employed in the 

 Coast Survev Office on Alaskan matters from 1875 to 1880; m this 

 interval was written the Alaska Coast Pilot and its Appendix The 

 present writer was associated with him in this and other A asUn 

 work as an assistant from March, 1873, till July, 1882. In 18b0 

 another season of Alaska field work was had, the ^-"^^^^/^^^^ 

 along the coast from Sitka to Unalaska and northward nearl> to Poin 

 Barrow. The principal sources of geographic inforniation as to al 

 this is a series of some fifty charts and plans issued by the Coa-.t 

 Survey and the Alaska Coast Pilot with its Appendix. 



