TOWNS OF PUGET SOUND 



siderable distance back in the woods of the 

 mainland, as they can easily run them down 

 unless they are near enough to the coast to 

 make their escape by plunging into the water 

 and swimming to the islands off shore. The elk 

 and perhaps also the moose still exist hi the 

 most remote and inaccessible solitudes of the 

 forest, but their numbers have been greatly re- 

 duced of late, and even the most experienced 

 hunters have difficulty hi finding them. Of 

 bears there are two species, the black and the 

 large brown, the former by far the more com- 

 mon of the two. On the shaggy bottom-lands 

 where berries are plentiful, and along the rivers 

 while salmon are going up to spawn, the black 

 bear may be found, fat and at home. Many 

 are killed every year, both for their flesh and 

 skins. The large brown species likes ''higher 

 and opener ground. He is a dangerous animal, 

 a near relative of the famous grizzly, and wise 

 hunters are very fond of letting him alone. 



The towns of Puget Sound are of a very 

 lively, progressive, and aspiring kind, fortu- 

 nately with abundance of substance about 

 them to warrant their ambition and make 

 them grow. Like young sapling sequoias, 

 they are sending out their roots far and near 

 for nourishment, counting confidently on lon- 

 gevity and grandeur of stature. Seattle and 



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