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Show Juneau Oeautlfully Situated. Juneau Is tho largest town In Ala-ka Ala-ka and one of the most beautifully situated, It reposes at tho foot of an enormous wall of rock, which, from tho water, looks almost perpendlculm with Its scattered housos standing out acalnst a dark background of spruce and hemlock This view, Indeed, affords af-fords a characteristic ssmpla of Alas kao sconery pine did mountains capped with snow; grand, rocky gorges, with grassy slopes on which tho wild sheep grate; swampy forest, through which the moose crash on the approach ot the hunter, and an la terminable beach bordered with dense scrub In some respects the scenery reminds on of Norway |