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Show ALASKA A LAND OF BEAUTY Traveler Tell9 of Its Many Attractions, Attrac-tions, Calling it Country of Enchantment. Cook's Inlet, wllh Its arms and ; reaches, lias many bewildering channels, chan-nels, resulting from the numerous rugged islands. The forbidding and . embattled fhores rising Into lofty . mountains, and at present swathed In white almost, to the water's edge, possess a virility, a grandeur ami sublimity sub-limity whl'h require the most poetic Imagination and most facile pen even faintly to iortray. The grand panorama pano-rama 'reaches Ks climax In Mount Mc-Kinley, Mc-Kinley, monarch of 1hc North American Ameri-can continent. Wllh Its altitude of 'M.iiV f,,,,t. It standi alone In lofty pride and Is distinctly visible from the ve.--.el. notwithstanding the very great 1l-.lane. The fact well establishes the quality of the clarified and Invigorating Invig-orating iitirioxphcri! of Ibis far norlh r-oimt r.v. "A careful rending of literature pcr-tnlning pcr-tnlning to Alaska prepared me In part," the Hon. A. I'.arton Hepburn writes In Leslie's, "for what the Journey was bound to disclose, but seeing Is the only sense that can give knowledge and secure appreciation of the grandeur, gran-deur, the sublimity, the fascinating beauty of moiint'n, sea, stream, llord. falls. Islands, forests, clouds and the glorious color elTects which the dazzling daz-zling rays of the sun bring Into existence. ex-istence. In connection with all these' Is a land of enchantment for all who love and can appreciate nature. "The Thousand Islands with all their beauty would scarcely serve as a prelude pre-lude to the surpassing grandeur and loveliness of thi! many thousand Islands Is-lands that adorn the ."..(KHI miles of Alaskan coast. The fiords of Norway, Nor-way, the far -fumed glaciers of Switzerland Swit-zerland cannot compare wllh their counterparts to be found In Alaska In number, variety, size, color cITecl and all the (ualllles thai give charm to these works of nature." |
