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Title: The New York Tribune's history of the United States, from the discovery of America until the present time, with a pocket atlas of the world, containing colored maps of each state and territory in the United States, with statistics showing products and resources of the various states; also, maps of every country in the world
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hassard, John R. G. (John Rose Greene), 1836-1888
Subjects: Atlases
Publisher: Chicago, Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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by Rocky and Cascade Mountains. Lofti-est peak. Mount Browne, 16,000 feet hi^h. Government consists ofa Lieutenant Governor, an Executive Council, and a LegislativeAssembly, elected by the people. Capital, Victoria; pop., 5,926. Amount of land occupied, 441,255 acres; improved, 181,885 acres.Grain product, 1881, 559,220 bu.; potatoes, 556,193 bu.; hops, 24,899lbs. Farm animals, 151,202. Butter made on farms, 343,387 lbs.;cheese, 33,252 Value of fur product, $153,442. Timber product,2,427,8:52 cu. ft. There are 400 fisheries. Salmon product, 50,106bbls.; other fish, 12,767 bbls. Fish oil, 237,492 gals. The mineral wealth of the Province is very great, the chief sourcebeing coal. On the mainland and Vancouvers Island large depositsof bituminous coal are found, and on Queen Charlottes Island afine grade of anthracite. Gold is found in various localities. Inten years the yield in the Province exceeded $22,000,000. ATLAS OF THE WORLD. 73 MAP OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, N.W. TERRITORIES, MANITOBA.
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74 ATLAS OF THE WOULD. ALASKA. Alas-ka. At the time of it8 discovery by the Russians, it was called by thenatives Alayeska, which has changed through Alaksa and Alashkato its present form. Largest possession of United States; dis-coTered by Vitus Behring, 1741; purchased from Russia, 1867. Area, 581,409 square miles: ^Nrctic division, 125,245; Yukon,176,515; Kuskokvim, 114.975; Aleutian, 14,610; Kadiak, 70,884:Southeastern, 28,980. Extreme length, north and south, 1,100miles; extreme breadth, 800 miles. Yukon, the great highwaythrough the country, navigable in summer about 700 miles; coastline, exclusive of smaller indentations, over 4,000 miles. Climate of Pacific coast much modified by the Pacific gulfstream and the long days of summer; mean annual temperatureof Yukon country, about 25°; at Sitka, about 44°; winter tem-perature at latter place about that of Washington, D. C. Rainfallcopious, and foggy weather common on coasts and islands; Sitkaone of rainiest places in the world o

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