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3 who sent that famous plank douglass spruce to the centennial is anxious to have me visit the woods there. So also the
owners of the Coal mines at Seattle Carbon are offering their mines as just the spots of greatest interest to a geologist.
At Port Townsend I met Mr Webster the Collection? of customs a Mr Swan who has long been a correspondent of Agassiz Also a
illegible hunter mountaineer by the name of Stratton. These gentlemen offer to make up a party to explore the Olympic Range
when I return, So you see I will not be alone unless I so choose. The season is not yet sufficiently advanced for excursions
into the dense woods, or up the snowladen peaks. The streams are all deep the ground is covered with a saturated sponge of
mosses. From one point on the Columbia a few miles below the mouth of the Wal illegible ette I saw five snowy cones from ten
to fourteen thousand feet high. Mt Rainier, Mt St Helens Mt Adams, Mt Hood, the North Sister? Rainier St Helens are the noblest
mountains I ever saw, surpassing even Shasta in the beauty of their lines in illegible ciness in whiteness Hood is much less
imposing sharp rugged wanting in solid massiness Rainier is best seen from Tecoma on Puget Sound, St Helens from the Columbia
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