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Lewis, Missoula, Pacific, Pierce, Suwnmish, Shoshoneo., Skatna- 

 nia, Snohomish, Spoknne, Thurston, Wahkiacum, Walla Walla, 

 and Whatcom. Olyrapia, the seat of the Territorial government, 

 is situated at the head of'Puget Sound, and in the center oft-. e 

 Western district of the Territory; population about one thou- 

 sand. The site is on gently sloping land, which in 1849 was 

 covered with a dense forest of very large evergreen trees, the 

 roots and trunks of which are still seen in the streets and lots 

 of the town. All the land adjacent is still covered with a simi- 

 lar forest. The houses are built of wood. Large vessels 

 lie about two miles from the town, the sound in front of it 

 being very shallow at low tide. Two miles from Olympi:'., 

 at the falls of the Des Chutes River, is the town of Tuni- 

 water, which contains two hundred inhabitants, and has the 

 best site for a manufacturing town in the vicinity of Puget 

 Sound. The river within a distance of half a mile falls seven- 

 ty-five feet, and furnishes power to drive a large number of 

 mills. The town has three saw -mills and two grist-mills, Van- 

 couver, with a population of twelve hundred, is situated on 

 the north bank of the Columbia River, very near the old tra- 

 ding post of the Hudson's Bay Company and the United Stales 

 niilitary post of the same name. The site is a beautilrd 

 grassy slope, rising gently from the river. Steilacoom, (»u 

 the east bank of Puget sound, about thirty miles from tho 

 capital of the territory, has a population of three hundred. 

 Seattle, forty miles to the northward, on the same side of tlse 

 sound, has two hundred inhabitants. Port Townsend (as 

 the people of the Territory write and spell the name, though 

 it is printed "Port Townshend" on the government's maps 

 and charts) lies on the west trunk of Puget Sound, which 

 is the name given popularly in the Territory to the sheet ol' 

 water called Admiralty Inlet in the charts. Port Townsend 

 has a population of about one hundred and fifty persons, is 

 the site of the only custom-house in the Territory, and has a 

 military post in its vicinity. These places, small as they now 

 are, promise to become towns of importance in the futui-e. 



