What to see in America . red thousand povnidsof oysters, clams, and ^shrimps every vessels can come ,:up the inlet to it fromPuget Sound at high tide,but at low tide a long-mud flat is uncovered,and even small boats can-not reach the wharf. Seattle, queen of athousand waterways,and the largest of Wash-ington cities, is perchedon a ridge east of theSound where there is awonderfully large anddeep harbor at its verydoor. The outer pillarsof the crescent harbor. West Point and Alki Point, are fivemiles apart. At the latter place a trading post was estab-lished in 1851 by a handful of se
What to see in America . red thousand povnidsof oysters, clams, and ^shrimps every vessels can come ,:up the inlet to it fromPuget Sound at high tide,but at low tide a long-mud flat is uncovered,and even small boats can-not reach the wharf. Seattle, queen of athousand waterways,and the largest of Wash-ington cities, is perchedon a ridge east of theSound where there is awonderfully large anddeep harbor at its verydoor. The outer pillarsof the crescent harbor. West Point and Alki Point, are fivemiles apart. At the latter place a trading post was estab-lished in 1851 by a handful of settlers who had made anoverland journey of one hundred and eight days from Illinoisto Portland and a coast voyage north from Astoria. Theycalled their settlement New York. Alki is an Indian wordwhich means after a while, and these two names are sig-nificant in that the city of the present hopes, after a while,to be the New York of the Pacific Coast. Chief Se-alth withsome of his tribe camped and fished at Alki in 1852. He. Rainier, a Crevasse 528 What to See in America gained the respect of the whites by his intelligence andsterling character, and they bestowed his name, slightlyaltered, on the infant community by the bay shore, and dis-carded that of the Eastern city. The ridge Seattle occupiedwas originally so precipitous in places as to be a serioushandicap for a great commercial metropolis, but the steepheights have been leveled off by a method used in hydraulicmining — that is, they have been washed away by power-ful jets of water, and the surplus earth transferred to givefoothold for docks and mills at the borders of the bay. Theharbor has been connected by a ship canal with LakeWashington which bounds the city on the east. This greatlyincreases the port facilities, and the fresh water of the lakeaffords an efficient means of freeing ocean-going vessels ofbarnacles. The lake is about twenty miles long and two tofive broad. At the docks are ships that sail to the ends oft
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