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THE NEW ELDORADO
A SUMMER JOURNEY TO ALASKA
BY
MATURIN M. BALLOU
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry: “’Tis all barren!” and so it is, and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.—Sterne.