A History of the Puget Sound Country: Its Resources, Its Commerce and Its People: with Some Reference to Discoveries and Explorations in North America from the Time of Christopher Columbus Down to that of George Vancouver in 1792 ...Lewis Publishing Company, 1903 |
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... United States , Alaska excepted . The name of Puget Sound was originally applied to that part of these waters which lies south of Admiralty Inlet and Whidby Island , but in recent years it is applied to all the inland waters entered by ...
... United States , Alaska excepted . The name of Puget Sound was originally applied to that part of these waters which lies south of Admiralty Inlet and Whidby Island , but in recent years it is applied to all the inland waters entered by ...
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... United States are found within the limits of this chain of mountains . Mt. Baker near the northern boundary of the state , 10,500 feet in height , presents a beautiful spectacle from the lower part of the Sound . About two hundred miles ...
... United States are found within the limits of this chain of mountains . Mt. Baker near the northern boundary of the state , 10,500 feet in height , presents a beautiful spectacle from the lower part of the Sound . About two hundred miles ...
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... United States . For more than fifty years thereafter the question of its ownership was left undecided . The slavery question in the United States , with other selfish interests , delayed the settlement of the boundary issue in the ...
... United States . For more than fifty years thereafter the question of its ownership was left undecided . The slavery question in the United States , with other selfish interests , delayed the settlement of the boundary issue in the ...
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... United States , but little was done by her people to counteract these efforts or to secure its actual and final possession . It was largely owing to the information furnished by the missionaries who had been sent to this coast by ...
... United States , but little was done by her people to counteract these efforts or to secure its actual and final possession . It was largely owing to the information furnished by the missionaries who had been sent to this coast by ...
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... United States , Tertiary time in Washington was characterized by the presence of many lakes in which sediments of great thickness were deposited . In the early part of Tertiary time , or during the Eocene epoch , vegetation grew with ...
... United States , Tertiary time in Washington was characterized by the presence of many lakes in which sediments of great thickness were deposited . In the early part of Tertiary time , or during the Eocene epoch , vegetation grew with ...
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