The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-05
1 TRIP TO VICTORIA.
The Most Charming Scenic Voy-
age in ALI America.
CALM SEA AND GRAND PEAKS.
Sunrise ON the straits OF Fuca-victoria
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fngham Bay Towns.

The water trip from Seattle to Victoria,
y. c., is the most charming voyage In
America. The writer has steamed through
the Thousand Islands" of the st. Law
renee. through the famous rapids OF that
magnificent river TO Montreal; through
Lake Champlain and Lake st. George, and
down the beautiful Hudson; he has visited
The picturesque southern shore Of Lake
Ruuerior. and taken the trip from st. Paul
n La Crosse. which includes all that is
beautiful on the course of the Mississippi;
he has travelled the majestic Columbia
from The Dalies to Astoria, and yet he
feels bound to bear testimony that none OF
these waters with their adjacent shores
are arrayed like those OF Puget Sound.
From Tacoma to Victoria the whole voyage
il without peer for safety, beauty and
comfort. The waters are so deep from the
head to the foot of the Sound that there is
no danger of grounding upon mud bank
As on the upper Hudson; they are so COM
rlefelv. landlocked that the vessel is as
safe from wreck by wind and wave as upon
the surface of mill pond, and even the
massage of the straits from Port Townsend
to Victoria is never rougher than the
average summer passage of little Lake
Champaign. The trip is SO short that 1t never
becomes tedious; the tourist leaves Ia
coma at o'clock in the morning and Is In
Victoria by p. m. From Seattle the
steamer carries yon to Victoria IN SIX
hours. These desirable conditions OF
safety, speed and comfort enhance the en-
ioyment of scenery of unsurpassed beauty
and grandeur.
AZ the boat recedes from Tacoma for
hours the traveller can see Mount Rainier,
its snowy scalp pinnacled in clouds OF
Alpine beauty. and when its vast mountain
walls are lost to view, there is still the
more distant beauty of the Olympic range
on the left, of Mount Baker and the lesser
peaks OF the Cascades on the right, and
OF the sssaw Tooth" peaks in British
Columbia to delight the eye. The ''out-
side trip to Victoria Is exceedingly line,
but the liner voyage is the ''inside" trip TO
Victoria. via Whatcom, Fairhaven and An
aeoYtes. This route brings you throagh
Deception pass and the Cyclades of the
Sound. In variety of mountain scenery
this route is superior to the outside"
run, for you keep Rainier longer in sight
and secure far finer view of Mount
Baker and the lesser peaks of the Cas-
cades.
The view of these mountains, of the dis
fant Olympics and of the British Columbia
range obtained near Snoqualmie pass is far
more beautiful than any scene that meets
The eve OF the tourist on the outside trip.
unless he is willing to get up between
and 4 a. m. and see the mountains break
slowly through the darkness into the flash
ing, many-colored lights of sunrise. If he
is willing to do this between Port Town
send and Victoria he will see a sight that
will make him murmur involuntarily
William the Conqueror's famous oath, by
the splendor of God, !" and feel the force of
Shakespeare's famous line, "Jocund day
stands tiptoe on the misty mountain
tops rs he never felt il before. Before
the stars have fairly left the morning sky
the great eye of golden day begins to wink
itself into the joyous wakefulness of rosy,