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Charles Sumner: “Recent discovery, by the enterprise of our citizens in the service of the Telegraph Company, fixes that this river is an…”

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Recent discovery, by the enterprise of our citizens in the service of the Telegraph Company, fixes that this river is an affluent of the Kwichpak, as the Missouri is an affluent of the Mississippi, and enters into Behring Sea by many mouths, between the parallels of 62° and 63°.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner clarifies the true nature of the Yukon River's connection to the Kwichpak and its entry into Behring Sea.

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