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Identifier: bookofroyalblue24balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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enformed, which purposes mining and prepar- NORTH OF PARALLEL FORTY-NINE ing the stones in the form of paper weights,specimens, etc., also mounting the smallerones as stick and hat pins. At the time ofour visit they had just opened an exhibitionroom in Wrangel, and also had a display oftheir goods at the Seattle Exposition. Themine proper is located a few miles in theinterior, back of Wrangel. The ladies incharge of the exhibit were very courteousand enthusiastic over their enterprise, untilwe asked why the participants in the scheme citizens and mongrel dogs abroad in thestreets. In daylight and under sunny skies,Juneau would doubtless be attractive, for itslocation is extremely beautiful and pictur-esque. Mount Juneau, thickly wooded wellto its summit, rising almost sheer from thesea to a height of 3,000 feet, forms a back-ground for the city, which is plastered upagainst its foot, under its overhangingshadow, like a swallows nest under theeaves of a barn. The average rise of ground
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THE DAVIDSON GLA( lER were limited to the feminine sex. In replythey only smiled and shook their heads andshut up like clams, and we were left to inferthat the men of the Twin Cities are so fullof flaws that the Alaskan garnets seem per-fect by comparison. Our visit to Juneau, the capital of Alaska,was not very satisfactory. We arrived earlyin the morning, about the time people weregetting out of bed. It was drizzling rain,the streets were slimy, and the few storesopen had a frowzy appearance, which wasborne out by the few frowzy, half-awake in Juneau is one foot in ten, and within thecity limits there is not one naturally levelspot 100 feet square. The streets are nar-row and winding, and rise sharply in ter-races, one above the other, while the road-ways are trestles, plank covered. Thehouses hang on the side of the mountain,like bird cages on a wall, and are reachedby flights of steps so long and steep it mustrequire a clear head and strong legs to reachthem. The capitol is on a hi

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