Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . visitors who approach Puget Soundand are told that Washington is called theEvergreen State. Their eyes behold the rea-son as they gaze in every direction upon thewonderful coniferous forest. The earliestexplorers commented upon these forests, theold pioneers wrote about them, and nowgeologists are finding fossil woods and conesshowing that these hills have been clothedwith the evergreen trees for ages beyondmans ability to name in years. Captain George Vancouver, the first whiteman to explore Puget Sound, on May 19,1792, wrote in his
Puget Sound and western Washington; cities--towns--scenery . visitors who approach Puget Soundand are told that Washington is called theEvergreen State. Their eyes behold the rea-son as they gaze in every direction upon thewonderful coniferous forest. The earliestexplorers commented upon these forests, theold pioneers wrote about them, and nowgeologists are finding fossil woods and conesshowing that these hills have been clothedwith the evergreen trees for ages beyondmans ability to name in years. Captain George Vancouver, the first whiteman to explore Puget Sound, on May 19,1792, wrote in his journal: The serenityof the climate, the innumerable pleasinglandscapes, and the abundant fertility thatunassisted nature puts forth requires onlyto be enriched by the industry of man, withvillages, mansions, cottages, and other build-ings, to render it the most lovely countrythat can be imagined. From its northern boundary, intersectedby numerous tributaries of the Frazer, tothe Columbia upon the south—where flows 16 Puget Sound and Western Washington. SURPRISE FALLS Near Scenic Hot Springs, on the main line of theGreat Northern , copyrigrt, 1910. by Kiser Photo. Co. the Oregon— from these extreme limitsWestern Washington is fortressed upon theeast by the Cascade Mountains. Hundredsof rivers and mountain streams flow, oftentumultously, from these everlasting to sublime height, rugged and snow-capped, this range of itself proclaims theunsurpassed scenery of Washington. Theseparate mountains Baker, Shuksan, SisterMountains, Lookout, Glacier Peak, Pilchuck,Rainier-Tacoma (The Mountain that wasGod), Langiel Peak, Red Mountain, thebeautiful , and the grand old are scattered between the Cascadesand the lines of the Sound. West of the mountains is Puget Sound—avast inland sea—whose waters are deckedwith many islands, large and small, andwhose shores are indented with numerousgulfs, sounds, bays, and inlets. Island pas-sages and s
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