BAKER.] 149 Ben— »ev. 



Dennison, f(n-k, of South fork of Fortymile creek. Called Denisou by Barnard 

 (Fortyaiile sheet of Geological Survey) in 1898. Abercroinbie has, also 

 in 1898, Dennison fork of Fortymile creek. Apparently these are two 

 spellings of one name. 



Denslow; lake, tributary to the Chuitna river, near the head of Cook inlet. Name 

 published by the Coast Survey in 1898. 



Dent; mountain (5,057 feethigh), on the eastern shon^ of Portland canal. Named 

 by Pender in 18(38. 



Derbin; strait, separating Avatanak and Tigalda islands of the Krenitzin group, 

 eastern Aleutians. Called Derbenskoi by Yeniaminof. Lutke has Derl)in 

 and Derbinskoi. Perhaps the name is derived from Denibin or Deriabin 

 or Derzhavin, who was massacred at Nulato in 1851. 



Drrhy, cape; see Darby. 



Desconocida; point, in Gulf of Esquibel, Prince of Wales archipelago. Named 

 Punta d'e la Desconocida (point of the unknown) by INfaurelle and Quadra 

 in 1775-1779, whose surveys ended near this point. 



Dese; creek, tributary to Grantley harbor, from the south, Seward peninsula. 

 Name from Barnard, 1900. 



Deaem/iuio, Puerto de; see Disenchantment. 



Desert {The). For 12 miles above Point Rothsay, at the mouth of the Stikine 

 river, "the river valley is sandy and almost destitute of vegetation. This 

 tract * * * lias received the name of the Desert," probably from the 

 prospectors and miners. (Coast Pilot, p. 109.) A(^cording to Ogden this 



^ is a misnomer. 



Desgraci(«l(i, islet; see laducky. 



Deshka; river, tributary to the Sushitna river, from tlie north, about 35 nules above 

 the mouth of the latter. Apparently a native name, from Muldrow, in 

 1898. 



Deslitt, A'illage; see Haines. 



Destruction; point, on the northeastern shore of Security bay, Kuiu island, Alex- 

 ander archipelago. So named by Meade, who in February, 1869, destroyed 

 two Indian villages in Security bay. 



Detached; rock, near Outer Spruce cape, near St. Paul, Kodiak. So named by the 

 Coast Survey in 1869. 



Devaatdtluii, volcano; see Pogromnoi. 



Deviation; peak, on the mainland east oi Kotzebue sound. So named by Beechey 

 in 1827. 



Devil; mountain, in northern part of Seward peninsula, southwest from Kotzebue 

 sound. Named Teufelsberg by Kotzebue in August, 1816. It is Chortof 

 (devil) mountain of Russian charts. 



Devil; rocks, in Dixon entrance. Tebenkof, in 1848, shows a sunken danger called 

 Devil bank. Later a United States Hydrographic Office chart shows 

 similarly a danger called Devil ridge. The later charts abandon this 

 name and show two sunken dangers, called, respectively, East Devil rock 

 and West Devil rock. See East Devil and West Devil. 



Devils Prongs. This ai)pellation was applied by the Coast Survey, in 1869, to two 

 mountain peaks near St. Paul, Kodiak. Elevation of the north i)eak, 

 2,057 feet. Also called Devil's moiintains. Named by the Russians, in 

 1809, Chernieshef, a name not found in any Russian dictionary at my 

 command, but which is very suggestive of the Black One. 



Devils Thumb; a remarkable pinnacle, on the summit of a mountain on the main- 

 land east of Frederick sound. So named by Meade, in 1869, according to 

 whom it is 400 feet high. According to Nichols the shaft or thumb is 

 1,662 feet high; the elevation of the whole is 9,077 feet. 



