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Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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profitable to the trapper. Thenfollow many other fur-bearing animals,such as the silver fox, the cross fox, the NOR THERN A BORIGINES. —A LA SKA N TINNEHS. 459 red fox, the marten, the mink, the landotter, the beaver fox, the fisher, thewolf, the lynx, the black, the brown,and the cinnamon bear. Though theabilities of the Indians to take these an-imals are limited by their ignorance andthe imperfection of their weapons, theannual yield of furs brought in by thenatives amounts to at least a hundredthousand dollars. The fresh and salt waters of Alaska sixtieth degree of latitude should yieldabundantly of agricultural products.Nevertheless, the warm va- possibility of por which whirls shore- Profitable agri-r culture in ward over this country has Alaska.a great effect in modifying the climate.This is especially true of the maritimeparts. Farming and gardening can herebe followed with success, but at the dis-advantage of short seasons. In the in-sular regions things grown from the soil
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ALASKAN TYPES.—Native Merchants of Sitka.—Drawn by Thiriat, froi.i a photograph. greatly abound in fish. The cod pre-dominates, and is most val- Fisheries of cod, halibut, uable of all. After this and salmon. .., 1 -■ 111 the salmon should be men-tioned, of which the abundance in thegreat rivers is practically inexhausti-ble. The halibut fisheries have not beengreatly developed, but there are fewparts of the earth where fishes of thisvariety can be taken of greater weightor abundance. But we need not dwellupon facts now well known to the reader.It could hardly be expected that thesoil of a country lying above the fif-tieth and for the most part beyond the can be raised more easily and success-fully. The river bottoms are not be-yond the reach of agriculture. Nature insuch situations shows her power by send-ing forth a profusion of wild flowers,red and white clover, many varieties ofberries, and wild barley. In these re-gions game abounds, including herds ofdeer, flocks of grouse

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