This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...of its publication, data in relation to the interior was inaccessible, and consequently that part of the map is unreliable. The second map, by Arrowsmith, contains several inexcusable errors, such as the position of Bdsborough Island, the Mission, and Andrafsky Fort. He has also been guilty of the stupidity of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...of its publication, data in relation to the interior was inaccessible, and consequently that part of the map is unreliable. The second map, by Arrowsmith, contains several inexcusable errors, such as the position of Bdsborough Island, the Mission, and Andrafsky Fort. He has also been guilty of the stupidity of restoring on the general map, which accompanies his Yukon map, the old error in regard to the delta, which Captain Smith disproved. Correct data, in regard to the coast-line and the positions of the forts on the Lower Yukon, has long been obtainable; the carelessness shown in the construction of the map is a warning to future explorers to be careful into whose hands they put their information. The nomenclature of the map is also much confused, Indians and Innuit being confounded. The San Francisco map is here noticed only because it pretends to be the result of the Western Union Telegraph explorations. The only points in which it differs from maps published long before the Telegraph enterprise was organized, are: the addition of a small accessory chart of Coal Harbor, Unga (from a survey by Captain C. M. Scammon, Lieutenant J. Davison, the writer, and other members of the expedition); the gratuitous introduction of a large number of lakes, generally situated where mountains should be; the remarkably erroneous course laid down for the Yukon; and the general contradiction in all important points of the Western Union Telegraph surveys. The map which accompanies this volume was derived from the following sources: --The coast-line, and many particulars in regard to the southern portion of the territory, from the United States Coast Survey. The head-waters of the Yukon, Stikfne, and Liard rivers, from a It will be observed that Whymper says (p. 201), "W...
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