. America, picturesque and descriptive. ua^ Zlrail, masM. THE KLONDYKE AND CAPE NOME. 507 TIh Alaskan roast hry,nu\ tlic Muir (Jlac-icr isbdnlered l»v the }j:;nat St. Klias mountain ran<i(\ ^ in Mount Logan to nineteen tliousand ii\e liun-dreil and thirty-nine feet, the highest of tiie l\ocd<ies,and in ]\Iount St. Elias nearer the coast to and twenty-four feet. From the broadflanks of St. Klias the vast ^Malaspina GLacier flowsdown to Icy JJay on the Pacific Ocean. There aremountains all altt»ut tiiis region, which the otlicialgcograpliers are naming after publ
. America, picturesque and descriptive. ua^ Zlrail, masM. THE KLONDYKE AND CAPE NOME. 507 TIh Alaskan roast hry,nu\ tlic Muir (Jlac-icr isbdnlered l»v the }j:;nat St. Klias mountain ran<i(\ ^ in Mount Logan to nineteen tliousand ii\e liun-dreil and thirty-nine feet, the highest of tiie l\ocd<ies,and in ]\Iount St. Elias nearer the coast to and twenty-four feet. From the broadflanks of St. Klias the vast ^Malaspina GLacier flowsdown to Icy JJay on the Pacific Ocean. There aremountains all altt»ut tiiis region, which the otlicialgcograpliers are naming after public men, amongthem being ^Mount Dewey. To the westward thevast Alaska peninsula projects far out, dividing thePacific Ocean from the Bering Sea, terminating inthe Fox Islands, of wiiich Ounalaska is the port, andhaving the xVleutian Islands spreading beyond stillfartlier westward. It is a remarkable fact, indicat-ing the vast extent of the United States, that theextremity of the Aleutian group is as far in latitudewestward from San Francisco as the Pen
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