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Rh is true of the most favored portions of Washington, with regard to grains, vegetables, fruits, and flowers, apply most especially to Island County, and to Whidby's Island in particular.

We might go on endlessly, describing the many islands that dot the Sound, and the lovely little bays, with their small rivers and fertile valleys opening into them; but it would be only to repeat the same general features: agreeable scenery, mild climate, prolific soil, with a recapitulation of natural resources—animal, vegetable, and mineral—that are nowhere lacking in all this immense region of Puget Sound.