Alaska (Alas`ka) , an immense territory belonging to the U.S. by purchase from Russia, extending from British N. America to Behring Strait; it is poor in resources, and the inhabitants, who are chiefly Indians and Eskimos, live by hunting and fishing, and by the export of salmon; seal fishery valuable, however.
Population (circa 1900) given as 32,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Alas`co, John * Alasnam