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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), St. Michael, (search)
St. Michael, The chief port of Alaska on Bering Sea; also the trading port of the Yukon Valley. It is on Norton Sound, in a region swampy and subject to inundations, and could be given an excellent harbor by extensive dredging and other im. provements. For many years it was an important station of the Russian Fur Company, and prior to the acquisition of Alaska by the United States was known as Mikhailovsk. See Alaska.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yukon River, or Kwickpak River, (search)
hough its sources have never been explored and cannot be accurately placed. It flows in a northwesterly direction and receives the Ice-Floes on the Yukon. waters of the Porcupine River, one of its largest tributaries, near the point where it crosses into Alaska, about lat. 66°. Thence it flows westward and southward to the native town of Nukyatmut, about 100 miles from the coast. Here the river makes a bend and flows in a northwesterly direction to the sea, discharging its waters into Norton Sound through several branches, forming a wide delta. The Yukon is more than 2,000 miles long, and is navigable for steamers 1,500 miles, or as far above Fort Yukon. In many places, in the latter part of its course, one bank of the river is invisible from the other, and 1,000 miles from its mouth is 20 miles wide. It has quite a rapid current, from 4 to 7 miles an hour. In winter the ice on this river averages 5 feet in thickness, and in places often freezes to a depth of 9 feet. The cli