TOWNS OF PUGET SOUND 



ful. The maple forest, of itself worth a long 

 journey, the beauty of the river-reaches above 

 and below, and the views down the valley 

 afar over the mighty forests, with all its lovely 

 trimmings of ferns and flowers, make this one 

 of the most interesting falls I have ever seen. 

 The upper fall is about seventy-five feet high, 

 with bouncing rapids at head and foot, set 

 in a romantic dell thatched with dripping 

 mosses and ferns and embowered in dense 

 evergreens and blooming bushes, the distance 

 to it from the upper end of the meadows being 

 about eight miles. The road leads through 

 majestic woods with ferns ten feet high be- 

 neath some of the thickets, and across a' grav- 

 elly plain deforested by fire many years ago. 

 Orange hhes are plentiful, and handsome shin- 

 ing mats of the kinnikinic, sprinkled with 

 bright scarlet berries. 



From a place called ''Himt's," at the end of 

 the wagon-road, a trail leads through lush, drip- 

 ping woods (never dry) to Thuja and Mertens, 

 Menzies, and Douglas spruces. The ground 

 is covered with the best moss-work of the 

 moist lands of the north, made up mostly of 

 the various species of h3T)num, with some 

 liverworts, marchantia, jungermannia, etc., in 

 broad sheets and bosses, where never a dust- 

 particle floated, and where all the flowers, 



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