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gre wingk’s geology of alaska and the northwest c oast of america Marvin W. Falk, Editor . Holmberg’s Ethnographic Sketches by Heinrich Johan Holmberg. Edited by Marvin W. Falk, translated from the original German of – by Fritz Jaensch. . . Tlingit Indians of Alaska by Anatolii Kamenskii. Translated, with an introduction and supplementary material, by Sergei Kan. . . Bering’s Voyages: The Reports from Russia by Gerhard Friedrich Müller. Translated, with commentary, by Carol Urness. . . Russian Exploration in Southwest Alaska: The Travel Journals of Petr Korsakovskiy ( ) and Ivan Ya. Vasilev ( ). Edited, with an introduction by James VanStone, translated by David H. Kraus. . . The Khlebnikov Archive: Unpublished Journal ( ‒ ) and Travel Notes ( , , and ). Edited by Leonid Shur, translated by John Bisk. . . The Great Russian Navigator, A. I. Chirikov by Vasilii A. Divin. Translated and annotated by Raymond H. Fisher. . . Journals of the Priest Ioann Veniaminov in Alaska, to . Introduction and commentary by S. A. Mousalimas, translated by Jerome Kisslinger. . . To the Chukchi Peninsula and the Tlingit Indians ‒ : Journals and Letters by Aurel and Arthur Krause. Translated by Margot Krause McCaffrey. . . Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts by R. G. Liapunova. Translated by Jerry Shelest with W. B. Workman and Lydia Black. . . Fedor Petrovich Litke by A. I. Alekseev. Edited by Katherine L. Arndt, translated by Serge LeComte. . . Grewingk’s Geology of Alaska and the Northwest Coast of America: Contributions Toward Knowledge of the Orographic and Geognostic Condition of the Northwest Coast of America, with the Adjacent Islands by Constantine Grewingk. Edited by Marvin W. Falk, translated by Fritz Jaensch. . . Steller’s History of Kamchatka: Collected Information Concerning the History of Kamchatka, Its Peoples, Their Manners, Names, Lifestyle, and Various Customary Practices by Georg Wilhelm Steller. Translated by Margritt Engel and Karen Willmore. . . Through Orthodox Eyes: Russian Missionary Narratives of Travels to the Dena’ina and Ahtna, s– s. Translated with an introduction by Andrei A. Znamenski. . Grewingk’s Geology of Alaska and the Northwest Coast of America Contributions Toward Knowledge of the Orographic and Geognostic Condition of the Northwest Coast of America, with the Adjacent Islands DR. CONSTANTINE GREWINGK Edited by Marvin W. Falk Translated by Fritz Jaensch university of alaska press Fairbanks, Alaska English Translation © by The University of Alaska Press All rights reserved. Published . Printed in the United States of America This publication was printed on acid-free paper that meets the minimum requirements for American National Standards for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI z . - . Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Grewingk, C. (Constantin), ‒ . [Beitrag zur Kenntniss der orographischen und geognostischen Beschaffenheit der Nord-WestKüste Amerikas mit den anliegenden Inseln. English] Grewingk’s geology of Alaska and the northwest coast of America: contributions toward knowledge of the orographic and geognostic condition of the northwest coast of America, with the adjacent islands / by C. Grewingk; edited by Marvin W. Falk; translated by Fritz Jaensch. p. cm. — (The Rasmuson Library historical translation series ; v. ) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN - - - (pbk. : alk. paper) . Geology—Alaska. . Geology—Northwest Coast of North America. . Physical geography—Alaska. . Physical geography—Northwest Coast of North America. I. Title: Geology of Alaska and the northwest coast of America. II. Title. III. Series. QE .G 5 . —d