The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-04-25

by Fraser Reach. then McKay's Reach
continues the panorama for the next
seven miles.
Wright Sound Is like lake. irreg-
ular In form and entered by five or six
different channels. All around this
sleeping beauty" rise numerous dome
shaped mountains as seminal guards.
One passenger says 1T recalls his view
Of the capitol dome at Washington
on approaching that city," Why that
dome is only 800 feet high. while sew
eral of these bald heads are from
two to three thousand feet high over
looking the deck of our steamers, as
giant sentinels. One was "The Old
Man." rising 1000 feet from the waters
edge, which far surpasses the "Old Man
of the Mountain" in the White Noun
tains of New Hampshire. Another fea-
ture is its great depth Of water. where
no bottom Is found at 225 fathoms
Here submerged peaks stand as islands.
At Hartley Harbor," Is q village Of
Christian Indians. who were formerly
members of Evangelist Duncan's COM
munityof Old Mettakakla. Here is a
church, school house. saw mill, etc. We
are now getting farther enough north
to make the sight of perennial snow
familiar one. with which the name Of
Alaska is principally associated in the
,,at We 49,. ap.n, ..Sraon,,,,,. Chnn
,,o,i - .hot S,as Sat,,,, D,.. IL ~ o.,
tha n,ain lava ~ ,s ront,,-S,,a ,'iias
~ a.n,,"s. .,.,n',, Ill.,
s ,s sn ,' as q" aoM, wo. ....,'
Doa,, " N, s., aI az
ss-,i.,s y. wonueul peay aH SUI
unity On the siacier oruer. mere are
mountans several tnousahu Ieet hisn
visited tnem. and cascades which seem
to tumble from the sky itself ana
through the openings glaciers ana avail
ancnes are seen. In some places the
channel Is so narrow that an ocean
steamer like the New York or St Paul
would touch both sides of the passage.
Soon the Channel expands and we pass
through narrow straight known az
Arthur Passage" with Kennedy Is
land on the right and Porcher Island
on the left and the fresh water Of
Skeena river entering from the contin-
ent on the east and mountains nearly
5000 feet high guarding it. This river
we are told was the greatest salmon
stream on the continent. comprising
over a hundred f1shjnp boats and the
conneries nroducinr eipht thousand
cases Of salmon each season
Continuinw n,,r co,,rsa throuob tho
Maiaccn masea ~e we an+sr TIC hroaJ
axnansa nf Chethan, sound tho las
channeI fra verssd In Rritish dnmain
and n roval shaet NJ watar n 10 too
forty miles long and ten miles wide.
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@ .ne sMeus tlon' a liz, Lnu ulosu i,,... ac ,.. i
sat,, 'y ~" ".cs my ~ it,, ", Sonn, 20 III.
ealIi Ranges, the one .y"is vacn VI rH..
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sSuIse .n'ousn Ca,md.n i. Sou ,nt.as
s,,s ema' ts, . ~ tTS, no "a" ~ 'os. w. ~
tS % uru threa Hn,das rs" .,onas & III" ',,,th ,ha,r
.Ie .ne Suune % 's%S, VIZ III III. .
snow-cappea peaks, wnlie on tne rignt
- .ne .an'eu Em.y al, LII Hl ,psa ELI, .,a
p penlnsula' .,l tmir nnaes ioms' t an, anu
conNec.eu WIZ, .he !al'.ailu a iS w nai =.
Iow s.,p Haiy Oiyy ,.,,..' v VIZ "" ILL. S,
penisu.a ps 10 ou Ne',uns @ anu fo,. ,'.
oinpson. ooap.y tnus & Ia. on IT, ~,
TRIP ho spct nas eAeiteu so M,uen in.e
est espeSlaIy aiiions s Smls',aa 'a,a .na,t ~
els, "s snsse a W. iasw e,,pnaes p' IN IA
scene OF tne early laooTs. successes anu
s.aussies s , VI "i'aa ~ an Ch,rS,, 80 t"1 rng NC
,o.su ,, iayaI VI I'll, ,n VI is i.s,,
-, -, INnr< C;,,,pCnu 10 Stvtaop
pafasrapn: . O,S ,1n.,aso.,ai, son s'n'Esil M 81,
portant post of the Hudson Bay com
nanv in 1871. now an Indian Village.
where the Oneen will stop on our re.
tmrn tr,n
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AN ARCTIC PROVINCE.
o.. l,,. A,,. a,
Ihe nrst gnmpse ot AiaskH ID Cape
Fox, on tongue island, ana DIXON en-
trance Is the boundary line between
British Columbia and our polar prov
ince beyond. whose blue mountains we
see In The distance Tongue island is
az ho,,,a ~ a tr,Ha 30 fnS,ans who
tne hv!ae VI = .'.p. VI s a"is' W.. WIZ
scarcely NUMBER three-score' rem
nant OF once numerous ana powerful
tribe. They occupy the site OF old Fort
Tongas, which for eight years after
r Afaska was acquired by our govern
mant Iyas the hea f1nua rfers of a. com
M nsm. Ir,i.oa Statas troons ,,haro
pahy VI eu 49,
was a custom mouse, put ooth have
s,wa ra,nfaII which has reached here
| to 11s inches in a single year. We do
not land here, but a good view is af-
| forded from the deck Of the vessel Here
totem poles are numerous. A half
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