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broken, spurs from the mountains putting down to the sea. There is, how- 

 ever, some intermediate tablehand. The Avhole is, with the exception of the 

 intermediate beach, covered with forest. The intei-ior of the peninsula is a 

 pile of abrupt mountains, upon some of which snow lies perpetualh'-. 



The coast north of the Tsihalis tribe is successively occupied by the 

 Kwinaiutl, the Kwillehiut, and the Makah, the first speaking a dialect 

 varying considerably from the Tsihalis, the second a distinct language, the 

 root of which is probably also in the Selish, and the third the language of 

 Nutka Sound. The Makah territory extends from the southern Cape 

 Flattery, called by themselves Osett, around Cape Klasset, and tip the 

 Straits of Fuca, as far only as the Okeho River. Tliese last, in accordance 

 with the rude interior of their country, are confined almost entirely to the 

 coast, and seek their subsistence from the sea itself 



The Kwinaiutl find their supplies in the streams, and to a certain extent 

 in hunting, while the Tsihalis properly belong to the bays, from which they 

 obtain winter salmon and shell-fish, and trade with the interior for kamas 

 roots and berries. Trails are said to exist from the Chahlatt River to the 

 Elwa on the straits, and from the Kwillehiut to the Pishtstand the Okeho. 



Pursuing the Straits of Fuca, the mountain barrier comes in like man- 

 ner to the shore until reaching the neighborhood of False Dungeness, leaving 

 only a few coves for habitation. 



From thence to Port Townshend a strip of more local character, some of 

 it valuable for cultivation, borders the coast and bays. Only a few streams, 

 and those of inconsiderable length, empty into the straits. Along tliis tract 

 from the Okeho River to Point Wilson, the Klallam, or S'klallam are 

 located, a tribe connected with those of the southeastern part of Van- 

 couver Island. They are as may be supposed almost exclusively mari- 

 time, depending mainly for support upon fish or the commodities which 

 they get in exchange ; but less venturous than the Makah, they do not 

 pursue the whale, or voyage beyond the mouth of the straits. 



The interior basin, reaching from the forty -ninth parallel southward and 

 embracing the islands, Bellingham Bay, and the waters of Admiralty Inlet, 

 Hood Canal, and Puget Sound, forms the third section, whose remarkable 

 feature is the series of bays and inlets which penetrate it in every direction. 



