. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. hepositions of Tolstoi and Dalnoi Mees are taken from Russian authority (CaptainArchimandritov), while the location of the village was made by Lieut. WashburnMaynard and myself in 1874, together with the degrees of variation to the used an artificial horizon. The overcast weather prevented our verification ofthe two other points given. Trend of ocean currents here.—Although small quantities of driftwoodlodge on all poinl^s of the coast, yet the greatest amount is found on the south shoreand thence around to Garden Cove.
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. hepositions of Tolstoi and Dalnoi Mees are taken from Russian authority (CaptainArchimandritov), while the location of the village was made by Lieut. WashburnMaynard and myself in 1874, together with the degrees of variation to the used an artificial horizon. The overcast weather prevented our verification ofthe two other points given. Trend of ocean currents here.—Although small quantities of driftwoodlodge on all poinl^s of the coast, yet the greatest amount is found on the south shoreand thence around to Garden Cove. This drift timber is usually wholly stripped ofits bark, principally pine and fir sticks, some of tliem quite large, 18 inches to 2 feetin diameter. Several years occur Avhen a large driftage will be thrown or strandedhere; then long intervals of many seasons will elapse with scarcely a log or stickcoming ashore. I found at Garden Cove, in June, 1873, the well-preserved husk of acocoanut, cast up by the surf on the beach. Did I not know that it was most. ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 285 uudoubtedly thrown over by some wlialer in these waters, not many hundred milesaway at the farthest, I should liave indulged in a pretty reverie over its path indrifting from the^south seas to this lonely islet. I presume, however, that the tim-ber Avhich the sea brings to the Pribilof Islands is that borne down upon the annualfloods of the Kuskokwim and Nushagak rivers, on the mainland and to the east-northeastward, a little more than 225 miles. It comes, however, in very scant saw very little driftwood on St. Matthew Island, but on the eastern shore of there was an immense aggregate, which unquestionablv came from theYukon mouth. Spot of Pkibilofs landing.—One of the natives, stareek, Zachar Oostio-ov( the president), told me that the Russians, when they lirst landed, came ashorein a thick fog at Tolstoi Mees, near the present sea-lion rookery site. As thewater is deep and bold
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