Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1883 — The Size of Alaska. [ARTICLE]

The Size of Alaska.

Although Sitka and Alaska are almost synonymous with north pole to average minds in the temperate zone, a comparison of maps showirthat Sitka and St. Petersburg, Unsafe, are in the same latitude, and the mouth of Chilcat river, the most northerly point that we visited, is on a line with the south coast of Greenland. The extent of this northwest territory and the vast distances between points are more than bewildering. Alaska itself is equal in area to all of the United States east of the Mississippi river. ’ Counting the Aleutian chain, the Pirbyloff group, and the 1,100 islands of the Alexander archipelago, the total area of the Alaska island is 31,265 square miles. The island of Attn, the last of the Aleutian chain, is as far west of San Francisco as Bangor, Maine, is east of it, and the indented coast-line of Alaska, than the whole coast line of the Atlantic and Pacific shores of the United States put together.— Cor. St. Louin Globellenibirat. ' -. The income of the London missionary societies of all denominations amounts to some $7,000,000 The Bible and tract societies add over $2,000,000 more to this grand total. It is claimed as one of the advantages possessed by Florida that it is south of the tornado belt.