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on which the wireless telegraph station is being installed would 

 make it safe. This likely will be done in the near future, as the 

 cbaniiel is narrow and not very deep. A protected harbor should 

 be located at this place, as it is the last harbor towards the ocean 

 in the Strait of Fuca. This town in time will become the north- 

 western terminus of the Olympic peninsula railroads. 



Buth East Clallam and (West) Clallam are located on Clallam 

 bay. They have tolerably good harbors and each of the two has 

 quite a lumber trade. At the present time East Clallam has the 

 interior trade of the Olympic region. West Clallam will be a ter- 

 minus of a branch of the Olympic railroads. 



Port Townsend is located at the northeastern corner of the pen- 

 insula. It has a protected deep-wafer harbor. It is a medium- 

 sized city, though not so flourishing as before the rise of Seattle 

 and Tacoma. It is a United States revenue station and near it is 

 located one of the forts that guard the strait. It is also the county- 

 seat of Jefferson county. It occupies a beautifully terraced position 

 overlooking both the sound and the strait. 



Dungeness was visited by Captain Gray in his famous trip 

 nearly 130 years ago, and the .old hull of one of his boats may be 

 seen out on the Williams' ranch, three miles from town, where he 

 had anchored in what was for many years afterward called Gray's 

 marsh, a safe harbor for the anchorage of all boats at the time 

 Gray visited the region, but now a fine farm. The first settlement 

 at the place was made in 1852 by one John W. Dornell, who had 

 come around the Horn from Maine in that year. He was a file- 

 maker by trade. He built the first grist-mill in Clallam county, a 

 mill run by wind power. For many years he was justice of the 

 peace of the place, and had the honor of marrying the first couple 

 ever legally married in the county, finishing the ceremony with the 

 words : " What God and I have put together let no man tear 

 asunder." 



For many years Dungeness was the county-seat of the county, 

 but in 1890 the county books and records were taken by force, it is 

 alleged, and transferred to Port Angeles, which has been the offi- 

 cial town of the county ever since. 



This town is in the midst of a fine farming section and dairy 

 country. It is situated on a beautiful bay and harbor that is well 

 protected from the storms that sweep the straits. A narrow arm like 

 spit extends out from the mainland west of the city and curves up the 

 strait, completely enclosing Dungeness bay except on the east side. 

 The spit is remarkable for its having a secondary spit developed 



