The Nome nugget., 1902-02-26

straits need not be seriously considered.
 Noticeable today in these northern lat
 nudes k steady pressure of all our
 animal life towards the west, like wise
 In Siberia he fanna presses towards
 the east. just as if there was still an | instinct surviving in these animals dating back to the time when they 1 roamed freely and unobS,ructcdly over | both continents. The fossil remains of North America are the sane as those of Northern A>ia and Europe. There
 moth and mastadon ivory and bones.
 Remaips of the nuroe{,s, large boar | tnsk7 etc., are frequent on both side, of the Bcring straits. The wild cari- bou of Northern Siberia does not vary in the least from our lowland car bon. Other examples could be cited. but I will II eutiun oaly one more, the one l that iir-t drew my attention to he fact that there must have brtna time when 1 the Pacific Ocean wa bounded to the
 north by a solid, uninterrupted coast
 line.
 In the Ohkotsk sea the sane species. ai kc in all respects, Of bowhead OF Greenland whales is found aS in the Bering sea and in the Greenland waters. On number of occasions whales have been caught in the Arctic ccean an in the Boring sea which had been struck in the Greenland watc s years previously. as the marks on the harpOpn~. which gave the name of the vessel and the year, and which had staid imbedded in the b'ubber, went to show. About 20 to 40 years ago there were some Poo whaling vessels cruising Sjmu taneOnsly in the Ohko-k and the i5ering sea. but there has never come t. my knowledge a single instance where whale had been fr~t struck in one Of these two seas and later cau4ht in the other. These whales appear never to have travelled around the south cape of Kamcharla: still they are alike today in both waters. like two peas. It strikes me that these two pots of whales must have become sep arated at the tune of the catastrophe which formed the Boring sea, and which, geolog.cally speaking, must have been very recent as there seems not to have been sufficient time for the species to vary.
 All the foregoing inc dents are not brought forward as positive proofs they are only meant to be iudiGaticns, strawS to show which Way the wind b ows which may lead to ard become an indurem nt to an eXhau,tive study o this theme. It. is a great and ral- reaching scheme tU prove conclus,vely that Cnce upon time the Pacific ocean washed to the north against solid N bat is now the Beling sea. Along the long shOreline of this continent coaSted in prehi>l oric times the traders from rich Cathay to the far lands of the Tolecs. The s'rong and dom- inant race that occup ed the land in the center oI this world, the prehistoric Alaska, whose shores were then as now the home of the fur->eal an the sea- otter, mig ght well have been the fore fathers of eur ESkimos, who driited to the north when the overwhelming
 l,,, ! l...,, feet, and shat cred the ancient mother race, of the ,Iapane-e, whose e civilization ha- grown 90 exotic under the warm sun e-1 Asia ic islands and of the Aztecs who who overran and overt hrew the Toltec civilization of Central Amer ca and were found by CDrteZ in Mexico. IL is thinkers inc and well worth the col lection o large funds to try to prove definitely what is here advanced as speculation. We here oi the nor, h. we, the new civilization on an cid, ma n trtvel ed toad and we. who have settled here with the intention to build up 'ncw and strong empire in the place of the old empire that ilOurio ed and vani shed here in Il dark ages, sEould be willing and glad to lend our hands and means to unroll such a grand and an inheritante to our children and to the university which in the near future will be established on the site where the old and new teachings shall meet and mix into one harn onions whole, q rue and solid foundation to build upon. CONRAD SEEM.
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