 | United States. Department of the Interior, Ivan Petroff - Alaska - 1881 - 110 pages
...best man who may ever make the journey there. CHAPTER VI. THE INNUIT RACE. THE YUKON 81'l,DiViSION. The people of the United States will not be quick to take the idea that the volume of water in an Alaskan river is greater than that discharged by their own... | |
 | Frederick Schwatka - Alaska - 1885 - 380 pages
...Columbia River bar and next morning entered the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the southern entrance from the Pacific Ocean which leads to the inland passage...every hour one-third more water than the " Father of Waters." — Petrotf's Oovernment Report on Alaska TER II. • •AGE TO ALASKA. to JJiAND PASSAGE... | |
 | Frederick Schwatka - 1885 - 372 pages
...from the Pacific Ocean which leads to the inland passage to Alaska. * The largest river on the Nortli American continent so far as this mighty stream flows...every hour one-third more water than the " Father of Waters." — Petrotf's Government Report on Alaska. CHAPTER II. THE INLAND PASSAGE TO ALASKA. iLAND... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 390 pages
...the idea that the volume of water in an Alaskan river is greater than that discharged by their own Mississippi ; but it is entirely within the bounds of honest statement to say that the Yukon River, the vast deltoid mouth of which opens into Norton Sound, of Behring Strait, discharges every hour of... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 396 pages
...his report as agent of the Secretary of the Interior, speaks thus confidently upon the subject : " The people of the United States will not be quick to take the idea that the volume of water in an Alaskan river is greater than that discharged by their own... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 390 pages
...his report as agent of the Secretary of the Interior, speaks thus confidently upon the subject : " The people of the United States will not be quick to take the idea that the volume of water in an Alaskan river is greater than that discharged by their own... | |
 | International Bureau of the American Republics - Alaska - 1897 - 148 pages
...also taken from Mr. Petroff s report : The people of the United States will not be quick to realize that the volume of water in an Alaskan river is greater...bounds of honest statement to say that the Yukon River, the vast deltoid mouth of which opens into Norton Sound of Bering Sea, discharges every hour one-third... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury. Special Agents Division - Alaska - 1898 - 1118 pages
...holds 600 more "nearly persuaded," as if it were a mere question of time to gather them in finally. The people of the United States will not be quick...the bounds of honest statement to say that the Yukon liiver, the vast deltoid mouth of which opens into Norton Sound of Bering Sea, discharges every hour... | |
 | Horace Fletcher Clark, Charles C. Heltman, Charles F. Consaul - Alaska - 1898 - 450 pages
...used is the Chilkoot. SPECIAL, AGENT IVAN PETROFF—ALASKA—ITS POPULATION, INDUSTRIES AND RESOURCES. The people of the United States will not be quick to take to the idea that a volume of water in an Alaskan river is greater than that discharged by the mighty Mississippi; but... | |
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The people of the United States will not be quick to take to the idea that the volume of water in an Alaskan river is greater than that discharged by the mighty Mississippi; but it is entirely within the bounds of honest statement to say that the Yukon... 