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Lothrop’s Historical Library.
EDITED BY ARTHUR GILMAN, M. A.
AMERICAN PEOPLE. By Arthur Gilman, M. A.
INDIA. By Fannie Roper Feudge.
EGYPT. By Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement.
CHINA. By Robert K. Douglas.
SPAIN. By Prof. James Herbert Harrison.
SWITZERLAND. By Miss Harriet D. S. MacKenzie.
JAPAN, and its Leading Men. By Charles Lanman.
ALASKA: The Sitkan Archipelago. By Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore.
Other volumes in preparation.
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D. LOTHROP & CO., Publishers,
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U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey Map of Alaska. Compiled by W. H. Dall 1884. [Larger view]
ALASKA ITS SOUTHERN COAST AND THE SITKAN ARCHIPELAGO
BY
E. RUHAMAH SCIDMORE
WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS
“Berlin, Sept. 5.—We have seen of Germany enough to show that its climate is neither so genial, nor its soil so fertile, nor its resources of forests and mines so rich as those of Southern Alaska.”—William H. Seward—Travels Around the World, Part VI. chap. v. page 708.
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1885.
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