Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-04
sEATTIE DAILY PosrMTnLIoENoER THURSDAY.


ALAsKA.
From travels in British Columbia
and Alaska" By Newton H. Chittsndsu,
just issued, We take the article follow
ing:
Alaaka u Q VAT region stxstchine
evay l400 miles north from 81 degrees
~ minutes, and over 1000 miles from
tne Pacific Ocean eastward. Hioh,
rocky, pceeipitous mountaina, thiekly
covered with forests Of cedar and hem
soc4. exend over nearly al that portion
emofaoinR the drs$ four hundred miles
@ coaee. known a. SoutheEn Alaakn.
Inc interior, % far - explored, con-
ta1ns diversified surface Of mountains
ana plains, lakes, marshes, meadows,
loviends and rolling plateaus, throagk
wnicn nowB Q mighty river, tho Yukon,
e broad a. the Amazon and nsyiQable
tor LOO miles. II 10 inhabited by the
aboriginal tribes, the Eakimos, Aleutes,
Aenaians and Tlinkets, numbering, al
together, perhaps, 1900 soolA The
climate Of Southern Alaska il 6ompara-
lively mild bat very disagreeable, owing
20 the exceelye rainfall The winters
q the interior are extremely cold and
the summers hot.
There are about 800 whites in the Ter
ritory, mainly at Sitka, juneau and
Fort Wrangel Mountains, forests, t.
lands, straits and channels inuumera-
bic, rock bound shores and snov-clad
peaks compose the general outline Of
the ecene which meets tho eye on every
mite ~ an ~ ~" S;ss t. aar ss'e ILL. d
!. -. =. o.' w n ps sao.o
dre1s - nil. 5S;sh ;n,;s.. settS.,....t
r. + ~ ~ ar., ,S v @;s @s.ses ~ %n.
the dome az hasven md .hrmnda n
oreat reeouroes If Gar. fnr and miner
eIs. the utilization If vhich viiI aftr.cA
ana ennnrrt scsttay;no co,rnunit;ea
but bevond this tha inorsic,st;on a =
hundred veara viIi nrnhahIv make hnt
little chanoe IL ~ }scs 81 x,aara The
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