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seems to indicate that the river in some remote age found 

 its way to the ocean through the present mouth of the 

 bay. — Washington has no islands in the Pacific Ocean, but a 

 multitude in the Gulf of Georgia and in Paget Sound and near 

 its mouth. Among those in the Gulf of Georgia are San Juan, 

 Lopez, Orcus, Shaw, Blakely, Lumrni, Cypress, Fidalgo, Wal- 

 dron, and Stewart Islands. At the mouth of Puget Sound are 

 Whidbey's and Camano Islands. In the soimd are Bainbridge, 

 Yashon's, Maury's, Fox, McNiel, Anderson's, and Ilartstene's 

 Islands. — There are many lakes in Washington. Quiniult 

 Lake, about forty miles southeast from Cape Flattery, is six 

 miles long by three wide. Whatcom Lake, two miles from 

 Bellingham Bay, is of the same size. Samish Lake, two miles 

 south of Whatcom Lake, is nearly as large. Dwamish Lake, 

 three miles east of the town and harbor of Seattle, is eighteen 

 miles long and three wide. Sanimamish Lake, five miles far- 

 ther east, is five miles long and two wide. Kipowsin, Owhap, 

 Kantz, Shaaf, and Tanwux Lakes are in a cluster thirty-five 

 miles eastward from Olyrnpia. Toutle Lake, nearly round, and 

 three miles in diameter, is twelve miles from the month of 

 the Cowlitz River. High up in the Cascade Mountains, in 

 latitude 47° 25', are Lakes Nah chess and Kitchelus, each five 

 miJes long and two wide, both drained by the Yakima Rivei*. 

 Not far from Lake Nahchess is Lake Kleattam, about as large 

 as the other two jointly. Lake Chelaw, east of the Cascade 

 Mountains, and one hundred miles distant from Port Town- 

 send, is thirty-five miles long, three wide, and has a great depth 

 of water. Its outlet into the Columbia is two miles long, and 

 in that distance the water falls two hundred and fifty feet. 

 In the northeast corner of the Territory, at the foot of the 

 Kocky Mountains, is Flat Head Lake, twenty miles long and 

 Bix wide. Clark's River, one hundred miles from its mouth, 

 spreads out into a lake six miles in diameter, called Pend 

 d'Oreille Lake. The Spokane River, about seventy-five miles 

 from its mouth, widens out into Ca3ur d'AlCne Lake, six miles in 

 diameter. There ai-e three main ranges of mountains in Was!;- 



