The Beauties of the state of Washington : a book for tourists . ty of scenery, to enjoy its peculiar attractions, andexperience again the pleasure of riding through a valley thatappeals alike to the Pullman passenger and to the automobilist;for it is human nature to love a change, even if ones home en-vironment approaches perfection itself. There are two important salt water harbors in southwestWashington, the more northerly one in Chehalis county, andnamed Grays Harbor after the great explorer who discoveredit in 1792, and the southern one in Pacific county bearing anIndian name, Willapa Bay.
The Beauties of the state of Washington : a book for tourists . ty of scenery, to enjoy its peculiar attractions, andexperience again the pleasure of riding through a valley thatappeals alike to the Pullman passenger and to the automobilist;for it is human nature to love a change, even if ones home en-vironment approaches perfection itself. There are two important salt water harbors in southwestWashington, the more northerly one in Chehalis county, andnamed Grays Harbor after the great explorer who discoveredit in 1792, and the southern one in Pacific county bearing anIndian name, Willapa Bay. They are separated by only afew miles of territory,which is served by no railroad other thana short logging road. Regular traffic is usually around by Cen-tralia, excepting that during the summer months auto stagestraverse the beach from Cohasset to Tokeland; for the beachhere is level and broad, and the sands packed so firm, when thetide has receded, that it is used as a highway, and even as a racetrack for automobiles and motorcycles. This is true not only. H£POO 02 H . 02 3P^ P-i As cd M !2 O H w H faO 02 M« w O Si oO 42 The Beauties of the portion lying between the two harbors but also of thetwenty-five miles known as North Beach extending fromWillapa Bay to the mouth of the Columbia. The entire region is fraught with charms that can be dupli-cated nowhere else. Pacific, Moclips and Cohasset beaches arepatronized especially by people from the Sound cities and fromsouthwest Washington. North Beach to the south of WillapaBay attracts as well crowds from Portland and other Oregoncities. On Sundays or at week ends special excursions are nu-merous, when great crowds avail themselves of the opportunityof visiting the seashore. The modes of amusement are numerous. Wading and bath-ing in the surf or burrowing in the warm sands ; hunting for shells, agates, andIndian relics; row-ing, and trolling forsalmon; or searchingfor the rare floralspecimens aboundingin the neighboringwoods
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