PUGET SOUND 



Along the coast of Oregon the woods of spruce 

 and fir come down to the shore, kept fresh and 

 vigorous by copious rains, and become denser 

 and taller to the northward until, rounding 

 Cape Flattery, we enter the Strait of Fuca, 

 where, sheltered from the ocean gales, the for- 

 ests begin to hint the grandeur they attain in 

 Puget Sound. Here the scenery in general 

 becomes exceedingly interesting; for now we 

 have arrived at the grand mountain-walled 

 channel that forms the entrance to that mar- 

 velous network of inland waters that extends 

 along the margin of the continent to the north- 

 ward for a thousand miles. 



This magnificent inlet was named for Juan 

 de Fuca, who discovered it in 1692 while seek- 

 ing a mythical strait, supposed to exist some- 

 where in the north, connecting the Atlantic 

 and Pacific. It is about seventy miles long, 

 ten or twelve miles wide, and extends to the 

 eastward in a nearly straight Une between 

 the south end of Vancouver Island and the 

 Olympic Range of mountains on the main- 

 land. 



Cape Flattery, the western termination of 

 the Olympic Range, is terribly rugged and 

 jagged, and in stormy weather is utterly in- 

 accessible from the sea. Then the ponderous 

 rollers of the deep Pacific thunder amid its 



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