History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . (» square miles of t wotild seem to indicjile eii^herbarrenness of soil, want of water, or su(!h dearth of general at-tractiveness as to discourage the influx of settlers. Hut in thecas(i of Yakima, so unflattering a diagnosis would be is in reality a sleejiing giant, only waiting to be awakenedto prove her strength. Then Yakima will come to the fiout andspeedily utilize the ten talents committed to her care. IrofessorLyman, whose organ of levin-ence, wise geographer thougli ite
History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . (» square miles of t wotild seem to indicjile eii^herbarrenness of soil, want of water, or su(!h dearth of general at-tractiveness as to discourage the influx of settlers. Hut in thecas(i of Yakima, so unflattering a diagnosis would be is in reality a sleejiing giant, only waiting to be awakenedto prove her strength. Then Yakima will come to the fiout andspeedily utilize the ten talents committed to her care. IrofessorLyman, whose organ of levin-ence, wise geographer thougli itebe, certainly requires cultivation, dest-ribes this (iounty as being shaped like a mnttoncliop—a favttrite edible of that learnedgentleman, we sliouhl fancy, for it is a simile he seems to pre-. HISTORY OF AVASIIINGTON. 249 fer. Tlic niutton-cliop in question has lieen Lut oft very sfraight-ly upon its southern side and almost equally so on its westernend, v\liile its eastern and northern outlines are, as an orthodox mutton-cliop should be, irregular and meandering. We arefree to <!onfess, however, that to our eyes it does not resemble a chop at all, or if it does, we have yet to meet -with one sogenerous in breadth. The natural gifts of Yakima are gracious and manifold—tini-l)er, minerals, foothills dotted with cattle and sheep whichthrive and grow fat upon their rich grasses. The valley of theYakima, replete with fertility and other advantages too numer-ous to mention, may well justify Professor Lyman when he ven-tures t<) predict that all these things are but a slight forecastof the time, now near at hand, when Yakima County will be thehome of happy thousands, provided with all the appliances andcomforts of tlie most civilized condition ; and what this writersays f
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