Show fertile alaska the nature of the whole land in alaska can be roughly divided into three conditions snow and ice fields bury the coast range and choke up every hollow to the immediate north the valleys are rocky and barren but the vast interior beyond is richly clothed in luxuriant vegetation scientific authorities theoretically mapped out giant ice fields as spreading over the entire land from tile the fairweather and mount st elias ranges nor north th almost to the valley of the alie yukon colossal heights 0 mantled in never melting snows tower thousands shousan ds of feet in the air but within the shadow of these mighty uplands in ill the sheltered hollows beneath lie immense valleys carpeted in richest ric liest grasses and gracefully tinted with wild flowers here in the summer a genial clime is found where strawberries and other wild fruits ripen in luxuriance where there are 4 14 months of summer and 7 14 of winter in june and july the sun is lost below the horizon only for a few hours and the temperature though chilly at night has an average of 65 begs in the daytime E J glave in century |