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Life-boat practice riding the breakers off the coast.

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If perchance one should wonder what gigantic forces of nature conspired to produce the grandeur and loveliness that lie on every hand, he must turn to the pages of geology for the story of the making. Late in the Quarternary, when all of North America was undergoing remarkable crust oscillations, the Pacific Coast, which originally extended much farther into the ocean than it now does, sank to its present position, and simultaneously the wide valleys of the Puget Sound basin were submerged and the lovely Puget Sound, with its hundreds of arms and bays and inlets, was produced. A little later in the history of the basin came great glaciers from the mountains to the northward, eastward and westward; which overwhelmed the northern part of the basin and hid its rock formation beneath a mantle of glacial sediment. In the scoured basins of these glaciers now are to be found some of the most exquisite little lakes in the world, and the mountains with their attendant canyons and pretty waterfalls are the

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It was in 1792 that Captain George Vancouver discovered "Whulge," the Indians called it, and took possession of the country in the name of England. At the time, both England and Spain for contending for possession of Pacific North America, but at the close of the celebrated dispute of Nootka, England was given the territory north of California. That is, her possession was undisputed as far as foreign powers were concerned, but she had not yet reckoned with the young American Republic. In 1818 a treaty held in London decided that "any country that may be claimed by either Great Britain or the United States in the northwest should be free and open for the term of ten years to the subjects, citizens and vessels of the two powers." The aggressive Yankees proved too energetic for the British, however, and in 1843, a government purely American was adopted and British rule came to an end within the present boundaries of the the United

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