Alaska

a territory of the United States, to which was ceded by Ru ia in 1867 for a payment of It comprises not merely the peninsula bears the name but a vast tract 1,100 miles long 800 miles wide, with an area of 590,800 square A line drawn N.from Mount St. Elias along 141° W. long. to the Arctic Ocean would cut off territory from the continent of N. America, ) but 50 Coast le islands. pak, and body Copper fall Ocean. the besides other consists for silver, coal. (average government, ments St. mountains Europe Ru ia neighbourhood province This as Simbirsk, the commerce gencral in the cepted of imprisoned and the Cortes, with when to Christina to After France, having to The W. with an The white Catholic sleeves Alb. in addition to this there is a narrow strip some miles in breadth that extends down the Pacific to British Columbia. The coast-line is not than 7,860 miles, and there are innumerable The principal river, the Yukon or Kwichrises in British America, receives the Porcupine other large tributaries and empties an enormous of water into the sea near Norton Sound. ‘The river, the Suschitna, the Mischagak, etc., in to the Pacific, and the Colville into the Arctic The mountain range that runs all along Pacific shore is prolonged into Alaska, anc Mount St. Elias (14,970 ft.) has several active volcanoes. The wealth of the country in fur-bearing animals, timber, and fish, it is too cold and wet for agriculture. Gold, and copper is worked; also Jead, iron, and Sitka in the island of that name, lat, 57° 3’ N. temperature 42° Fahr.), is the seat of which is purely military. Other settle are Fort Nicholas on Cook’s Inlet, and Fort Michael on Norton Sound. Ala Tau, a name borne by three distinct or ranges (1) in Ufa, to E. of Ru ia in; (2)in Persia, N.W. of Meshed; (3) in Asiatic to the 8.E. of Lake Balkash, and in the of Lake I ik-Korel—separating the of Semi ray a chen tsk from Chinese Tartary. range is itself subdivided into several parts, Ala Tau Dzungar, Ala Tau Koungei.