Identifier: 1870alaskaitsres00dalluoft (find matches)
Title: Alaska and its resources
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927
Subjects: Alaska
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n Mountain. The fort is composed of log buildings with plank roofs, placed inthe form of a square, and with the intervals filled by a palisade aboutten feet high, surmounted by a cJicvatix-dc-frise of pointed stakes.This is also continued round the eaves of the buildings. There aretwo outlying bastions, pierced for cannon and musketry, and con-taining a number of pieces of artillery of very small calibre andmostly very old-fashioned and rusty, except two fine brass howitzersof more modern manufacture. The principal buildings are the com-manders house, — consisting of two private rooms, an armory anda counting-room, or contonwi, — a couple of buildings used as store-houses, a bath-house, and separate houses for the married andunmarried workmen. There is a flag-staff leaning apologeticallyas if consciously out of place, and a gallery for the watchman, whois on duty day and night, with reliefs, and who tolls a bell on thehour stroke to notify the inmates that he is not asleep. One of
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THE YUKON TERRITORY. II the bastions is without cannon, and is used as a guard-house forrefractory subjects. Outside of the stockade are several other buildings, — a smallstorehouse used for furs, a large shed where boats are drawn up in,winter, a blacksmiths shop, and a church. The latter is octagonalin shape, with a small dome, surmounted by a cross, and a. beambearing a bell at the side of a small porch which covers the door-way. Other small buildings are scattered about ; a su.n-dial is tobe found not far from the church, and a noticeable feature in thefall is the stacks of bleached driftwood, which, from a distance,look not unlike tents or bastions. Between the point on which St. Michaels is built and the main-land, a small arm of the sea makes in, i,n which three fathomsmay be carried until the flagstaff of the fort bears west bynorth. This is the best-protected anchorage, and has as muchwater and as good bottom as can be found much farther out. At the southwest extremity of t

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