Alaska contains a territory which will within this century support as large a population as the combined Scandinavian countries of Europe; those countries from which has sprung as wonderful a race as ever imprinted its characteristics upon the history of civilization.
Roosevelt predicts that Alaska will support a large population comparable to Scandinavian countries.
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