, 1877-03-23
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PORT TOWNSEND.

a cOrreSpOluohC VI IiiO OlOSOIioh
who is evidently of an appreciative
turn of mind thus discourses about
this town and its environs in a late
number of that paper:
The approach by water to Port
Townsend is very picturesque. The
wide bay is almost land locked. The
Fort shines out from the deep fringe
of green on the gentle slope. But
the elevated location of the town
commands attention. On the fat,
scarcely raised above the water, are
the stores, hotels and some dwell
lings. But nearly all the residences
are on the hill. From this elevated
plateau the scenery is surveyed to
great advantage. In the rear the
old gigantic forests intercept the
view of Port Discovery and the Straits
of Fuca. Looking southwark along
the curving beach three miles dis
tant the military post appears in
creasingly attraetivc. A good road
thither has recently been construct
ed by the joint efforts of citizens
and soldiers; but the drive along
the beach at low tide is still unsur-
passed.
Continuing our survey along the
circular margin of the bay, vista
opens through land and forest,
shaded by the colossal evergreens,
terminating in distant view of Port
Gamble. Above the island oppo-
site towers the monarch of the Cas-
cades, Mount Tacoma, a hundred
miles away, always grand, and now
beautiful, as every rugged ridge is
softened into folded outline, and
thin clouds of silvery mist are on
every part except where the SUMS
rays are shining upon it. Another
glance along the circle brings Whid-
by Island into view and the spacious
channel of the Sound. Further still,
and nearer, is Wilson's Point, which
marks the boundary between Admi-
ralty Inlet and the Straits of Fuca.
A broa'l expanse half hides the head
lands Of. the San Juan archipelago.
On either hand appears the friendly
lighthouse, night watcher of the sea.
Then still turning toward the left, a
broader expanse, well deserving the
name of sea, stretches to the shore of
I Vancouver Island, which the observ-
er dimly discerns through the thick
enng mist. But all the perplexity
OF otuncertain vision disappears on lift
lng the eye to the distant horizon.
There stands Mount Baker, in regal
nagnihcence, with sharp outline, de-
ming every curve and slope and pin
nacle, looking like a vast iceberg
aoatlng down from the Arctic ocean.
a glance at the same horizon reveals
'he snowy outline Of the Cascade
ange through many a league, from
Mount Baker TO Mount Tacoma; and
.ael continuing the returning view
= NE western side Of the Sound, the
Ies.fon ,n ls bounded by the ragged and
eaay heights Of the Olympic range.
10 covered with the same brilliant
-h'ie, ave where the precipitous
.nniis shed the falling snow into
depths beneath. The contrast
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steeption u vieiaria.can display
aa var.-d and attractive cGnbi.
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