Excerpt from Reconnaissance of the Geology and Mineral Resources of Prince William Sound, Alaska Prince William Sound, formerly known by the Russians as Chugach Gulf, is an embayment extending northward from the north side of the Gulf of Alaska, near the center. The sound lies west of the Copper River delta and east of Cook Inlet, between west longitude 145° 37' and 148° 43' and north latitude 59° 46' and 61° The extreme east and west length of the sound, from the head of Cordova Bay on the east to the head of Port Nellie Juan (or Kings Bay) on the west, is miles, and its extreme north-south dimension, from the head of College Fiord on the north to the southern extremity of Montague Island on the south, is 104 miles. (see Pls. I and II.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.