. Alaska. The country and its inhabitants . /5_63^<fc I ALASKA. —*— THE COUNTRY AND ITS INHABITANTS. • I. THE COUNTRY. ^^ENTLEMEN: Eighteen years ago last March what was known as^15 Russian America was, by special treaty, ceded to the United States. fAt the suggestion of Senator Sumner, the territory was given the nameof Alaska, which it now bears. Alaska is a corruption of the Indianname Al-ak-shah, which means a great land or country. And it is indeed agreat country. It is more than sixteen times as large as Indiana, and com-prises territory equal to one-fifth of the rest of the United St
. Alaska. The country and its inhabitants . /5_63^<fc I ALASKA. —*— THE COUNTRY AND ITS INHABITANTS. • I. THE COUNTRY. ^^ENTLEMEN: Eighteen years ago last March what was known as^15 Russian America was, by special treaty, ceded to the United States. fAt the suggestion of Senator Sumner, the territory was given the nameof Alaska, which it now bears. Alaska is a corruption of the Indianname Al-ak-shah, which means a great land or country. And it is indeed agreat country. It is more than sixteen times as large as Indiana, and com-prises territory equal to one-fifth of the rest of the United States. Itextends nearly twenty-two hundred miles in a direct line from east to west,and measures some fourteen hundred from north to south. Owing to thenumerous islands embraced by its large archi])elagoes it has a shore line ofupwards of twenty-four thousand miles,—considerably more than twice tiiecombined lengths of the Atlantic and Pacific shore-lines of the UnitedStates. It has, too, within its boundaries tlie highest mountains,
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