. The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest . eby its exceptionally low percentage of phosphorus. Another unbroken expanse of water, and we enter the firstof those wonderful river-like channels through whose pictur-esque sinuosities three
. The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest . eby its exceptionally low percentage of phosphorus. Another unbroken expanse of water, and we enter the firstof those wonderful river-like channels through whose pictur-esque sinuosities three-fourths of our voyage will lie. This isDiscovery Passage. It lies between the western side ofValdes Island and the northeastern shore of Vancouver southern extremity of the former island, known as CapeMudge, is a peculiar headland about 250 feet high, flat andwooded on its summit. As the steamer approaches this point,every passenger on deck expects it to continue on its coursethrough the broad open waters to the right. Instead of that,however, it leaves the headland to the right, and enters thenarrow passage, not more than a mile in breadth, lying to thewest of it. For 23 miles it follows this picturesque waterway,overshadowed by noble mountains rising from both shores. From an expansion of the Passage, caused by an indentationon the Vancouver shore, known as Menzies Bay, we pass into. 412 The Northern Pacific Railroad. the famous Seymour Narrows, a gorge two miles in length, andless than one-half mile in breadth. Through this contractedchannel, the tides rush with great velocity, sometimes runningnine knots an hour. The steamer is usually timed to reachthis point at low water, but it rarely happens that the watersare not seen in a state of tumult sufficient to constitute theirpassage a decidedly interesting feature of the voyage. At Chatham Point, a low, rocky promontory on the Van-couver Island shore, we take the more westerly of two ap-parently practicable channe
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