. Alaska + la sua storia, il clima e le risorse naturali. rctic belles stivali inverno sarebbe solo il thingfor le signore alla moda del nord incidono stateswho snow-shoeing come una sana winterrecreation; essi sono molto leggeri, molto ordinato andnothing può essere più calda. Un esempio molto semplice di dispositivoper prevenire tali stivali, suole di che sono dello stesso spessore dal tallone alla punta del piede, da slip-ping sul ghiaccio o neve dura, consiste pf un pezzodi avorio o osso circa un pollice di larghezza e un quarterof un pollice di spessore, la quale è conformata per inserirsi nella thehollow del piede e la superficie esterna di whichis in modo trasversale come scanalato

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. Alaska + its history, climate and natural resources. rctic belles winter boots would be just the thingfor the fashionable ladies of the northern stateswho affect snow-shoeing as a healthy winterrecreation; they are very light, very neat andnothing can be warmer. A very simple deviceto prevent these boots, the soles of which are ofthe same thickness from heel to toe, from slip-ping on the ice or hard snow, consists pf a pieceof ivory or bone about an inch wide and a quarterof an inch thick, which is shaped to fit into thehollow of the foot, and the outer surface of whichis so cross-grooved as to give a jagged surfacecertain to imprint a firm hold in either ice orcrusted snow. To protect the eyes against the snow blastsof winter on the one hand, and against snowblindness on the other, they wear wooden spec-tacles, or goggles, without glasses; in the bowlwhich covers the eye there is simply a narrowslit, through which the wearer is afforded a widerrange of vision than would be thought possiblefrom a mere inspection of the rude contrivance.. MADONNA AND CHILD.From Painting in Greek Church, Sitka, ^Wi! CLIMATE AND RESOURCES. 193 They wear no hats except in the extreme hotweather of July and August—and, though themercury never aspires to any great height on thecoast, there is abundant evidence to substantiatethe assertion that in the interior of northernAlaska during those two months the heat be-comes well nigh unendurable. Their sun hatsare carved out of single blocks of wood, withbroad oval brim in front, and are generally orna-mented with strips of ivory set on edge, and uponwhich is carved the totem or tradition of the fam-ily of which the owner is a member. And it can-not be said of the interior Alaskans, as it wasof the party in the song, that they wear nosocks. These they do wear, but not of anypattern to be found on the shelves of a wellstocked hosiery store; they are made of thegrasses indigenous to the section in which theylive, closely and neatly braided, a

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