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Georgia, and the channels leading to and making up Puget’s Sound, 
with much detail. The shores of this wonderful network of channels 
value. Through a surprising extent of line they are directly accessi- 
ble for ocean vessels, and form, as it were, an immense network of 
harbor. They present the foundation for a kind of agricultural Venice, 
far into the heart of the west half of Washington, the resources of 
which they will greatly aid in developing. Fort Nisqually and Olym- 
pia, at the southern extremity of Puget’s Sound, must rapidly advance 
with the growth of the Territory. 
The interior portion of this section is but imperfectly known. The 
land office surveys north of the Columbia have as yet made little 
progress ;. but the sketches prepared in that office give more recent and 
correct information than is elsewhere to be found on the section between 
that river and Puget’s Sound. On penetrating farther towards the 
ocky Mountains, the country is essentially unknown. The narrative 
of Lewis and Clark, the book on Oregon Missions, by Father de Smet, 
and 49°, on both sides, is still a good field for exploration. Much may 
be expected from Dr. Evans, who is engaged in a geological reconnois- 
i aken him much among 
charge of the Coast Survey Office for over three years. A head grad- 
uate at West Point, a highly efficient constructing officer of Engineers, 
giv 
ace, soil, resources, products, and peculiarities of a region, so soon to 
become a State with a voice in our National Councils. Those who 
best know him are confident he will be able to accomplish this, and 
much more, in addition to those important and laborious duties which 
will devolve on him in organizing and putting into thorough operation 
machinery of a new Territorial Government. H. 
