Alaska and the Klondike gold fields : containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; ... . n Alaska. This point of confluence is atFort Selkirk, in the Northwest Territory, something like 125miles southeast of Klondike. Giant Among Rivers. The Yukon River proper, therefore, is 2044 miles in Fort Selkirk it flows northwest 400 miles and touches theArctic Circle. Thence it bends in a southward course for a dis-tance of 1000 miles and empties into Behring Sea. The mightystream drains more than 600,000 miles of t
Alaska and the Klondike gold fields : containing a full account of the discovery of gold; enormous deposits of the precious metal; routes traversed by miners; ... . n Alaska. This point of confluence is atFort Selkirk, in the Northwest Territory, something like 125miles southeast of Klondike. Giant Among Rivers. The Yukon River proper, therefore, is 2044 miles in Fort Selkirk it flows northwest 400 miles and touches theArctic Circle. Thence it bends in a southward course for a dis-tance of 1000 miles and empties into Behring Sea. The mightystream drains more than 600,000 miles of territory and dis-charges at least a third more water into Behring Sea than theMississippi River discharges into the Gulf of Mexido. A LAND OF WONDERS. 195 At its mouth it is sixty miles wide. As far inland as i 500miles it widens out from one to ten miles. ThrouL^hout itscourse it is dotted with inland islands, more than lOOO of these,it is said, sending the course of the stream in as many differentdirections. The stream thus merits being considered as a geo-graphical wonder, and from mouth to head there is scarcely apoint devoid of interest to the
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