History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . ne of the distinguished corre-spondents of the press who visited this State at the oi^ening of theNorthern Pacific Railroad in the autumn of 1883, concluded aletter to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette by saying : If anyone alive to the beauties and sublimities Of nature weie to rideblindfolded over the plains to Puget Sound, and were thenallowed to look for a day on the white dome of Mount Tacoma,tliis siglit alone would repay him for the long journey made indarkness. This mountain, by co
History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . ne of the distinguished corre-spondents of the press who visited this State at the oi^ening of theNorthern Pacific Railroad in the autumn of 1883, concluded aletter to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette by saying : If anyone alive to the beauties and sublimities Of nature weie to rideblindfolded over the plains to Puget Sound, and were thenallowed to look for a day on the white dome of Mount Tacoma,tliis siglit alone would repay him for the long journey made indarkness. This mountain, by common consent of all who havetravelled most widely, is the most impressive in the world,standing, as it does, alone, its base reaching thirty miles alongthe horizon, and rising nearly fifteen thousand feet above the sealevel, which is the spectators point of view. •Though visible from many points between the ColumbiaRiver and the Straits of Fuca, Mount Tacoma is best seen fromtliis cit^^ In the clear atmosphere of the coast it displays itsglories, not only in the sunlight and moonlight, but in clear. W0:iW
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