Expeditions & surveys; Railroad surveys; Puget Sound; Mount Rainier; Whidbey Island (Wash.)
"Puget Sound forms a most variegated compound of narrow inlets and sounds, interlinked among each other by passages and channels, and connected with Admiralty Inlet" only by the Narrows, a contracted passage near Point Defiance which...
"The altitude of this butte, as determined by barometric measurement, is 281.8 feet above the level of the Shyenne (Cheyenne) River." Named for "an engagement between some half-breeds and Sioux, in which one of the former, by the...
Charred wood caught between layers of lava, indicating that there was enough time elapsed between flows to allow vegetation to grow on or around the older flow.
Lepeophtheirus salmonis--Juan de Fuca, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.); Lepeophtheirus salmonis--Washington (State)--Neah Bay (Bay); Pacific salmon--Juan de Fuca, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.); Pacific salmon--Washington (State)--Neah Bay (Bay)
Exploration party moving up the Sun River valley "in the direction of the pass between the Crown Butte and the Rattlers, prominent landmarks west of Sun River and visible at a great distance." Plate XXIX.