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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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and therewas a considerable difference of opinion asto the boundary described in the Russiantreaty. The matter was submitted to a tri-bunal of three Americans, two Canadiansand one Englishman, which met in London,and after much sifting of evidence, a con-clusion was arrived at. While this officiallyestablished the boundary line, and it is helpless and so far away, that God onlyknows what goes on inside of it, and in ameasure, this is true, but the fringes ofThe Great Country are neither so faraway nor so inaccessible as might bebelieved. On the contrary, the summertrip to Southeastern Alaska is as easy andpleasant as t/ic road to Mandalay\ Where theJiymgfiihes play only the fishes in Alaskan waters do notfly, and at the season of the year we madethe trip (July) they were too busy evadingnets, traps, and other devices to encompasstheir destruction, to have any time left forplay. When preparing for our Alaskan trip,we collected about two tons of literature, NORTH OF PARALLEL FORTY-NINE
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NORTH OF PARALLEL FORTY-NINE ranging from railway folders to congres-sional records; we read alleged Alaskanromances, warranted to glow with localcolor reflected from the Northern Lights,but the first were uninteresting and in thelatter the aurora borealis was plainly turnedon by a boy with a lime light, in the gal-lery. However, there are three or fourbooks on Alaska which ever\ visitor to thatcountry, though but a wayfarer and atourist, should read. First, General Greelys Handbook ofAlaska, which deals solely with facts andstatistics, and is therefore rather dry read-ing, but as the facts are carefully assortedand labeled, a general idea of the extentand resources of the country can be readilyand easily gained therefrom. Ne.xt, Mrs.Higginsons Alaska, the Great Country,which is comprehensive and reflects carefulresearch, but is too flowery to be takenaltogether seriously. In fact, the book issuggestive of the soda-fountain concoctionknown as a sundae, which has a foun-dation of good

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