Vol. X 



NOVEMBER, 1899 



No. 11 



The 



Magazine 



STRATED MONTHLY 



Editor: JOHN HYDE, 



f the U. S. Department of Agricul 



J Associate Editors 



\. W. GREEDY, Chief Signal Officer, U. & Artf^L: WJ McGEE, Ethnologist in Charge, Bureau 

 of American Ethnology ; HenrYvQannett, Chief Geographer, U.S. Geological Survey ; 

 C. Hart Merriam| Biologist of Oie^G^S.^^pxrime^U-of Agriculture ; DavidJ. Hill, ; 

 Assistant Secretary of State ; Charles H. Aixen, Assistant Secretary of the Navy ; 

 Wilus L. Moore, Chief of the U.S. tVeal'her Bureau ; H. S: VRiTcnm?,' Su- 

 perintendent of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ; Marcus Baker, U. S. 

 Geological Survey ; O. P. Austin, Chief of 'the Bureau ojf Statistics, 

 U. S. 1 reasury department; EfcpZA Ruhamah ScidmorE, Author 

 of'fava, the Garden of the East," etc.; Care Louise Gar- 

 rison, Principal of Phelps School, Washington, D. C. 



Assistant Editor: GILBERT H. GROSVBNOR, Washington, D, C. 



I 



CONTENTS 



m, 



HONI. JOHN pT. FOST 



Ex-Secretary of State. 



ALFRED PIERCE DENNIS, 



Professor of History in Smith College. 



THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY 1 



With twelve maps. 



LIFE ON A YUKON TRAIL. 

 With illustrations. 



THE RATIONAL ELEMENT IN GEOGRAPHY. WM. M. DAVIS, 



With diagrams. Professor of Physical Geography in Harvard University. 



EDWARD ORTON, LL. D. 

 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. 

 GEOGRAPHIC LITERATURE. 

 GEOGRAPHIC MISCELLANEA. 



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