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Title: The Beauties of the state of Washington : a book for tourists
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Giles, Harry F Washington (State). Bureau of Statistics and Immigration
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Publisher: Olympia : F.M. Lamborn, Public Printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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r the favorable influencethey exert on the climate and on the lives of the people whobuild their homes in the valleys below. Their supremacy is re-flected by the thermometer, the barometer, and the aerometer;for they help regulate the temperature, the rainfall, and thewinds velocity. They form great repositories for the watersthat feed the streams and keep full the cities aqueducts. Withintheir immeasurable depths lie buried huge deposits of preciousand useful metals, besides vast fields of bituminous coal. Theirlower zones provide fertile and safe localities for the growth ofWashingtons big timber, while the alpine meadows above se-cure for the timid deer and ptarmigan asylums of temporaryfreedom from too frequent disturbance by prowling huntsmen.Still higher are the rugged bare prominences, reserved for thewild goat or mountain sheep, and the snow fields traversed bythe more venturesome seeking to gain the summits. Everywherethe true sportsman finds ample opportunity for proving his
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MOUNT BAKER—FORTY MILES EAST OF BELLINGHAM. State of Washington 11 piowess, while trailing the beast to its lair, and the sight-seekingmountaineer is fully rewarded for all the struggle required toreach some dizzy height. Within the immense bosoms of these mountains nestle innu-merable lakes, beauteous beyond compare, near whose shadyshores is many a sequestered spot, most tempting to the camperwho loves the mountain region; and many a brook goes tricklingover its stony course to join the rivers below, pausing here andthere in some shady dell to create a deep pool for luring the fish-erman, or hurling itself over some lofty precipice as a waterfallof wonderful magnitude and magnificence. The mountains are a link connecting us with the past. Theyremind us perhaps of the period when volcanoes belched forththeir fiery refuse, or of the era when the sea covered most ofwhat is now land. Indestructible they stand and their rockyheights are in places insurmountable. The works of man trespa

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