An illustrated history of Skagit and Snohomish Counties; their people, their commerce and their resources, with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington .. . o X HW w isen O. w •<H <: DESCRIPTIVE 387 Perhaps the most important feature in itstopography is the Skagit, the largest streamflowing into Puget sound. The course of thisnoble river through the Cascade mountainregion is marked by all the wildness and fierce-ness of flow characteristic of mountain streams,while its environs are grand indeed. Uponemerging from the mountains, the river at oncelays aside its siiperflu
An illustrated history of Skagit and Snohomish Counties; their people, their commerce and their resources, with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington .. . o X HW w isen O. w •<H <: DESCRIPTIVE 387 Perhaps the most important feature in itstopography is the Skagit, the largest streamflowing into Puget sound. The course of thisnoble river through the Cascade mountainregion is marked by all the wildness and fierce-ness of flow characteristic of mountain streams,while its environs are grand indeed. Uponemerging from the mountains, the river at oncelays aside its siiperfluous impetuosity and as-sumes an air of great dignity and calm, thoughit still presses onward to the sea at no sluggardspace. Swelled by tribute from the majesticSauk, the turbulent Baker and a number of otherstreams of less magnitude, it becomes a broadriver, navigable by almost any kind of craft, withsufficient propelling power to overcome the forceof its current. Naturally this river attracted theattention of the earliest visitors to what is nowSkagit county. Some of the prospectors andadventurers who rushed into the Fraser rivercountry in 1858, made superficial reconnoissancesof t
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