BAKER.] 363 Sel-Sen. 



Seldovia; post-office and village, at Seldovia bay, Cook inlet. The name is derived 

 from the name of the bay. The post-office was established here in 

 November, 1898. 



Selenia, point; see Settlement. 



Selenie; lake, on the northern shore of Graham harbor, Cook inlet. The Coast 

 Survey atlas of harbor charts (1869, map 6) has a sketch of "Port Gra- 

 ham from Archimandritoff's Survey," on which appears Celenic lake. 

 This is obviously a mistaken rendering of the Russian word Selenie 

 (settlement). 



Selenie; point, on eastern shore of Pavlof bay, Alaska peninsula. Tebenkof shows 

 a settlement (selenie) at this point, whence the name Sele'nie, given by 

 Dall in 1880. This village was called Pavlovsk by Petrof in 1880. 



Selezneva, bay, cape and village; see Duck. 



Selfridge; bay, on the southern coast of AVrangell island, Arctic ocean. Perhaps 

 this is a synonym for Doubtful harbor of Berry in 1881. 



Seltathin. The Krause brothers, 1882, give Seltathin (Seltat river) as the native name 

 of a small stream tributary to the headwaters of the Klehini river, south- 

 eastern Alaska. 



Seltathinscholschage. The Krause brothers, 1882, report Seltat-hln-schok-schage to 

 be the native name of a mountain peak near the headwaters of the Klehini 

 river, southeastern Ala.ska. 



Semenoffshf, island; see Simeonof. 



Semichi; islands (818 feet high), just east of Attn, western Aleutians. Discovered 

 by the early Eussians and named Semichi, from the Eussian Semik, says 

 Dall, the feast on the seventh Thursday after Easter, on which day they 

 were discovered. Perhaps they are St. Abram of Bering in 1741. Coxe, 

 1780, calls them Shemya. Variously written Semitsch, Semitschi, etc. 



Semida. Langsdorf, 1813, calls the Semidi islands Eudocia (Ewdokijefftian), and 

 one of the group, not identified, Semida, which name, spelled Semidi, is 

 now applied to the group. According to Sauer (Billings's Voyage, 200), 

 the largest of the group is Simedan or Simediin. See Chowiet. 



Semidi; a group of about seven small islands, off Alaska peninsula, southwest 

 from Kodiak; thought to have been discovered by Bering in August, 1741, 

 and named Tumannoi (foggy). Either this group or the adjacent Chirikof 

 island was identified by Cook, 1778, with Bering's Foggy islands. Billings, 

 1802, calls them Simedan, and in the Spanish atlas of Galiano, 1802, 

 appears the name Isla Fogoi. About the beginning of the century the 

 group received from the Eussians the name of Eudoxia or Eudocia, which 

 has appeared rnider the forms Ewdokijefftian and Evdokeevskies. On 

 old Russian charts they are called Semidi or Eudokievskie. In 1868 they 

 were called by the Coast Survey Seven islands. Sem is the Eussian 

 niuueral seven. By a blunder in transliteration they were once called 

 Zumik. 



Semidin, island; see Chowiet. 



Semisopochnoi; island (3,112 feet high), one of the Eat island group, northeast of 

 Amehitka, western Aleutians. The descriptive name, Semisopochnoi 

 (seven peaks), was given, apparently by Sarichef, about 1790. It has ])een 

 variously written Semisopotchny, Semi Soposhna, Semisopokh, Island of 

 the seven mountains, 7 Momitains, etc. 



Senati; native \allage, on the right bank of the Yukon, "just below Eampart 

 Eapids." So called by Eaymond, in 1869, who says it was the first native 

 village met with on the Yukon in descending from Fort Yukon. It was 

 occupied by Senati, an old Kutchin, and his people. Raymond called it 

 Senati' s village. 



