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heart, still burns. In some versions this story is connected with the 
slide which formed the Cascades of the Columbia, and by damming up 
the water inundated the forest, th mains of which are now visible 
along its margin. The date of this event Lewis and Clark fixed at 
about thirty years before their arrival. It is very probable that it may 
have been due to an earthquake, as earthquakes, though not frequent, are 
known upon the coast. The Indians have no tradition of an eruption 
of lava; they have only seen smoke and ashes come out of the moun- 
tain. They add that a bad smell came from it, and that the fish in the 
streams died. Around the foot of St. Helens, they say, the ashes are 
so deep and soft that horses cannot travel.” 
Mr. Gibbs gives the following account of the Coal of Bellingham 
Bay : 
* [ visited the coal-beds on the D’Wamish and at Bellingham Bay, 
but I had no time for making more than a very superficial examination. 
That on the outlet of D’Wamish lake is situated immediately upon the 
water, a few rods below Tobin & Co.’s mills, and about a mile from the 
lake. The outcrop is exposed to the eastward or river side, and dips to 
the water at an angle of about 15°, being broken off towards the 
| *Wamish, at Stévenson’s claim. It is intended to trans- 
port this coal in scows to the town of Seattle, about sixteen miles dis- 
tant by water. 
** Two beds had been opened at Betlingham bay, and the coal was 
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tirely wanting. Some of the outcrops of coal appear to be at the edge 
of faults, but the thickness of the formation itself was not examined. 
«“ Another bed, a little to the north of this, belonging to Captain 
Fauntleroy and others, presented much better indications. Its thickness 
