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States. Many geographical names so familiar to every Puget Sounder, such as Rainier, Hood, Baker, Vashon, Dundeness and many others were given by Vancouver. Vancouver Island he named "Quadra and Vancouver Island," the first part commemorating his Spanish friend and contemporary, but usage has obliterated that, and we have remaining the tribute to himself only. He named the northern part of his discovery New Hanover and the southern part New Georgia, both in honor of his king, but the Congress of the United States later changed New Georgia to Washington, and the Canadians honored America's discoverer by changing the name of New Hanover to British Columbia.

Olympia, the capital of Washington, is the southernmost city on Puget Sound, a beautiful little home city, and the center of a vast lumbering

district. Here, also, is the true home of the Olympic oyster. About half way between Olympia and Seattle lies Tacoma, situated on a picturesque eminence overlooking Puget Sound. The two features of the city in which its citizens take greatest pride is the stadium, a vast concrete auditorium occupying a natural amphitheatre above the Sound, and capable of seating 35,000 people, and the fact that Tacoma is the gateway to the renowned Mount Rainier.

Mt. Rainier-or Mt. Tacoma, as the Tacoma people call it-is an almost sublime thing-an extinct volcano rising 14,532 feet into the sky, its rockribbed edges carved by glacial action, its white precipices gleaming, and its slopes below the snow line glowing with the variegated hues of wild flowers. The drive of seventy miles from Tacoma to the gateway of mammoth

many places clings desperately to the precipitous wall, while far below the river roars through its rocky channel. A few miles beyond the log gateway and its rustic lodge is a comfortable hotel for the convenience of tourists. Twelve miles farther on is the snout of Nisqually Glacier rearing its icy wall hundreds of feet into the air. From a cavernous orifice the river roars and leaps as if in mad delight at its release from the prison of ice. On the snowy slopes of Mt. Rainier tobogganing is enjoyed all summer which, of course, is quite a novelty.

Seattle is the city that will attract every tourist visiting the northwestSeattle the city beautiful, Seattle the city of life, and Seattle the gateway to Alaska.

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It is not uncommon when dining in a New York restaurant to overhear conversation about Seattle, and it is not infrequently accompanied by such remarks as the following: "I simply love Seattle." From the tower of the forty-two story L. C. Smith Building one may obtain a panorama of the city and its vicinity; to the west is Elliott Bay, fringed with Seattle's immense shipping facilities, and across stretches the peninsula known as Alki Point, where the early pioneers made their first settlement in 1851; against the horizon rise the Olympic Mountains; to the north is Queen Anne Hill, covered with homes, and to the northeast is Lake Union and Capitol Hill, another good residential district; to the southeast is the Mt. Baker Park district, and the hill to the south is Beacon Hill. Seattle is a city of hills and they add much to its attractiveness. Conspicuous on top of what is known as the "First Hill" rise the twin spires of St. James Cathedral, the Hotel Sorrento and other buildings of note. Like the cities of the eastern and middle western States, Seattle has an excellent system of park boulevards. It winds like a wounded serpent over the hills and through the parks, now affording a view of the Sound and then a view of Lake Washington and the lovely Cascade Mountains to the east.