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. 1902 Excerpt: ...ever be taken from the hills and streams of Northern Alaska." Glacial Ice Receding. It is claimed by scientists that the glacial ice is approaching from the Antarctic, while it is receding towards the Arctic. I have talked with navigators who were in Behring Sea and the whaling grounds to the north more than forty ...
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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. 1902 Excerpt: ...ever be taken from the hills and streams of Northern Alaska." Glacial Ice Receding. It is claimed by scientists that the glacial ice is approaching from the Antarctic, while it is receding towards the Arctic. I have talked with navigators who were in Behring Sea and the whaling grounds to the north more than forty years ago. They assert that the waters are shallowing and that the only safe anchorage for vessels in Behring Sea near the shore is to be found only on the Siberian side. They say it is owing to the fast receding waters" that the Nome beach and Topkuk were found so rich in gold almost to the surface. I came up the coast in August at the time of the neap-tides. The Eskimos said it showed more beach than the oldest had ever seen before. We landed at Topkuk. The miners were making hay while the sun shone. It was 9 p. m. A row of rockers stood as close together as they could be worked, the whole length of the pay-streak of beach. In about two hours, the time the tide was out, the men took out $20 to $200 to the shovel. After big storms they make.small money working the Nome beach. Owing to this glacial movement towards the North, the climate of Alaska is becoming milder, and civilized man can exist here now as well as in such European countries a? Sweden, Norway or Lapland. When the missions were first established on the Yukon and other points in 1884, the rigor of the climate was such that no vegetable or plant raised in a temperate zone could be grown as far north as St. Michaels. The climate has undergone such changes since then that they can now raise all the more hardy vegetables as far north as Chinik. At Nome, a little Norwegian woman said to me: "It not mooch colder here dan in Norway, where I lif. Some time da rez all kind of d...
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Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Bright, tight, crisp and clean copy signed on Preface page by 'Tootsie' Madrene Clark, "6/14/05, Thanks for wanting my grandmother's book." 241 pp.
