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... feet above the winding blue bay , the shore descending in steep , splendid terraces to the water , stairwayed in stone , and grown with old and noble trees . Macadam roads led several miles across the island ; the old block - house of ...
... feet above the winding blue bay , the shore descending in steep , splendid terraces to the water , stairwayed in stone , and grown with old and noble trees . Macadam roads led several miles across the island ; the old block - house of ...
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... feet , their snowy crests over- hanging the clear , green - black waters of the narrow fiord . Many glaciers stream down from these peaks . The Gulf of Georgia continues for a distance of one hundred miles in a northwesterly direction ...
... feet , their snowy crests over- hanging the clear , green - black waters of the narrow fiord . Many glaciers stream down from these peaks . The Gulf of Georgia continues for a distance of one hundred miles in a northwesterly direction ...
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... feet long and eighty feet wide , and с rested on carved corner posts . There was an immense ALASKA : THE GREAT COUNTRY 17.
... feet long and eighty feet wide , and с rested on carved corner posts . There was an immense ALASKA : THE GREAT COUNTRY 17.
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... feet above the ground . It was supported by several uprights and had no covering , but a fire was burning upon one end of it . In Cascade Canal he visited an Indian village , and found the construction of the houses there very curious ...
... feet above the ground . It was supported by several uprights and had no covering , but a fire was burning upon one end of it . In Cascade Canal he visited an Indian village , and found the construction of the houses there very curious ...
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... feet . Its wood is very valuable . Arbor - vitæ grows about the glaciers and in cool , dim fiords . Birch , alder , maple , cottonwood , broom , and hemlock - spruce are plentiful , but are of small value , save in the cause of beauty ...
... feet . Its wood is very valuable . Arbor - vitæ grows about the glaciers and in cool , dim fiords . Birch , alder , maple , cottonwood , broom , and hemlock - spruce are plentiful , but are of small value , save in the cause of beauty ...
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