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CEOGRAPHIC 



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MAGAZNE 



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DECEMBER, J904 No. \1 



CONTENTS 



PACK 



China* By Hon. John W. Foster, Author of "American Diplo- 

 macy in the Orient," etc. With Maps 463 



A Doubtful Island of the Pacific. By James D. Hague. With 



Maps 478 



The United States Government Telegraph and' Cable Lines, 



With Maps 490 



A Bird City. Illustrated 494 



A Fossil Egg 499 



The Wealth of Alaska 499 



Geographic Notes 500 



Geographic Congress Abstracts 502 



Hosie's" Manchuria and Its People" . 504 



Geographic Literature 506 



National Geographic Society . 507 



Index to Volume XV 509 



