Word: alaska
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...their investigations are to appear later in the Technology Quarterly. The party visited all the islands of the Aleutian chain from Unimak Pass to Atka. It was found that the island of Bogoslof was one of the wonders of volcanology. This island volcano is northwest of the peninsula of Alaska. It first appeared as the result of an eruption in 1796, and it has been more or less active ever since...
These islands, among which Professor Jaggar and his associates have spent the summer, from part of a submerged mountain chain from Alaska to Kamchatka, and glacial action has so deepended the valleys that the result is called a sea of mountains. Owing to the prevalence of gales and the danger of the coasts, ships have rarely visited the archipelago. The islands are destitute of trees, but are covered with a thick growth of herbage. The climate is foggy but free from extremes...
...Brady, governor of Alaska, will deliver a lecture on "Alaska" tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, at the Prospect Union, 744 Massachusetts avenue. This is the fourth of a series of Sunday afternoon lectures conducted at the Prospect Union...
January 27--Hon. J. C. Brady on "Alaska...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "The Finger Lakes of Western New York," Professor Davis; "Recent Changes of Level in Yakutat Bay, Alaska," (Illustrated,) Mr. Lawrence Martin, Geological Lecture Room...