Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . to findtheir way through its Valdez Pass, over an alleged Indian trail, by what is asserted to bethe shortest route to the Klondike country. The Kenai Peninsula is father west and were it not for twelve miles of a dead ormotionless glacier, which connects it with the mainland, it would be an enormous few streams make from its mountainous interior into the surrounding waters and alongmost of these prospectors have traversed and found gold. The streams however, afford theonly pathways to the interior, and on the Kenai, as on th
Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . to findtheir way through its Valdez Pass, over an alleged Indian trail, by what is asserted to bethe shortest route to the Klondike country. The Kenai Peninsula is father west and were it not for twelve miles of a dead ormotionless glacier, which connects it with the mainland, it would be an enormous few streams make from its mountainous interior into the surrounding waters and alongmost of these prospectors have traversed and found gold. The streams however, afford theonly pathways to the interior, and on the Kenai, as on the islands of the archipelago, thesurface is not alone wooded with spruce trees from 70 to 80 feet high, with hemlock, redcedar, willow and birch, but there is an undergrowth of brush so dense as to beimpenetrable. Besides this, there is a species of spiny cactus called devil club, withfronds sometimes eight feet in length, which grows among the brush and gives briars tothe tangle. The only trails through this confusion of vegetation are made by the brown. The Village of Kadiak. ALASKA, ITS WATKKS, LAND AND
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