rtli'-rn /'.tr, f> , 



There ,-uv hnt feu localities in tin i ,1 Ii.i<ii| where 



tlu' rocky sul)str;ituiii 



level. Aloui: tlu- northern and WCM -m margin of Vane -u\ 

 Sucia, Orcas and \Vlii. lliy Man k and at ( 'huekenmts an-: 

 home the rock appears, bill at Taeo,,,a, Sirilacmn. - 

 MailJMMi. Port Townsend. and it may he >aid ^.-m-rally ahont the 

 Sound, the shores are steep lilntTs. Inn to 1. , height, 



composed of drift alon -. Knun the clitT- at Port K'lclmi'.nd atxl 

 '1'aeonia, 1 took sub-angular >eratehed and itv-worn ].,!. !,!,<. an 

 characteristic and convincing as anv to h found in tin- honlder 

 clay of the eastern Stal 



Tlu siihsidi-iicc which canseil the >ea.\vat -r to iloxv intu tlu- 

 suhai'rial excavated valleys of PIIIM'> Sound, !ille<| aNn the eh..n- 

 nel of the Colnnihia to the ( and the -y>trm of i 



that fringe the northwest coast, of which tin- MI.I- 



t ives. 



\Ve have evidence, too, that the area oreiipied hy the sea wa at 

 one time much more extensive than now, for all the country im- 

 mediately ahont Pdget's Sound is marked with f marine 

 terraces which Mr. Bailey Willis, who studied them when, 

 nected with the Transeont ineiital Survey under Prof. Pumj>clly, 

 tells me can he traced to a height of l,;on feet ahovt- the j>reaent 

 OOean level. These terraces are conspicuous on the low divide 

 which separates the valley of the Cowlitx from the ha>in of Pu- 

 - Sound ; ami here, as over much of this region, the ground 

 i> COTered with pehhlo and waterworn hoiilders, t lie product of 



tin- long-con tinned dash of the shore ware* on a -lope inpoged 



of drift materials. In the advance ami recession of the shore- 

 line, the liner materials ha\e heeii im>>tly \\a-hed av\a\. anl the 

 >tony surface has lit lie agricultural vain it U 



well ada|.te<l to the growth of trees; and the splendid foreit 

 which covers it i> pcrhap> an equivalent for all it \\iia lost. The 

 facts here given >how why the cultivation of the soil in Wik-h 

 ton Territory is limited to the narrow belts of i dliiMum 



alon- the stream*, and indicate that the lishrrie>. coal-min 

 and luml.er induMry must he in the future, as the\ are : 

 the moM important BOOrO !th. 



