72 The Willamette Sound. 



of increasing interest the world feels in facts 

 that tend to solve the doubts that cluster 

 around this natural inquiry. A few more mill 

 races dug, a few more excavations of winter 

 floods, more careful search where mountain 

 streams washed their trophies to their burial 

 under still waters, and this question may be 

 set at rest, as it regards the Willamette sound. 

 Oregon does not answer it yet. 



