History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . it uponits shores, villages dot its indentations, many keels part itsplacid waters. Its eclioes, grown familiar to the shriek of thesteam whistle, no longer start at the sound ; the white wings ofthe pale-face canoe have become too common a sight to attractthe attention of the Indian. Expectation hastens onward andRealization follows swiftly in its footsteps. The plan of to dayis the thing accomplished of to-morrow. We cease to be sur-prised. Regarded from a toi)Ographical point of view as
History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . it uponits shores, villages dot its indentations, many keels part itsplacid waters. Its eclioes, grown familiar to the shriek of thesteam whistle, no longer start at the sound ; the white wings ofthe pale-face canoe have become too common a sight to attractthe attention of the Indian. Expectation hastens onward andRealization follows swiftly in its footsteps. The plan of to dayis the thing accomplished of to-morrow. We cease to be sur-prised. Regarded from a toi)Ographical point of view as it appearsupon the map of Western Washington, there is but one simile,and that, perhaps, at first sight not the most pleasantly suggef-tive, to which we may liken this vast body of water, but never-theless, in general scope, outline, and appearance it resemblesthe octopus—an octopus, indeed, broken at the centre by theintrusion of Whidby and Camano islands, whose widespreadfeelers reach out from thence till lost in the Strait of Juan deFaca on the north, while its southern termini touch the mouths. ^^ rtiE Mi:\s viiHKPCB-LIC LIUliA;:\ (. LtNyX AND TILDBN rOIJNDATIUNS B L HISTORY OF WASHINGTON. 457 of the Puyallnp and the Tumwater ; hut, unlike tlie octopus oftlie ocean, it juits forth its Briarean tentacles not to injuie butto bhss ; to bring great ships from afar to cities that smile theirwelcome upon its banks ; to makeanever-ready waterway for thelog rafts floating to expectant mills, to bear upon their bosomsthe argosies that carry food, shelter and fuel to lands beyondthe sea—in fine, to furnish those all-needful means of communi-cation whicli, combined with that great inland triumph of mod-ern engineering, the JSTorthern Pacific Pailroad, have made thewilds of Western Washington what they are to-day, and withoutwhich it would be far less advanced both in wealth and popula-tion. Then, too, as already suggested, it seems to exercise abeneficent iufiuence over cl
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