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in a distance of about forty miles: Boulevard, Ballard Junction, Ballard, Boss, Fremont, Edgwater, Latona, Ravenna Park, Yesler Junction, Keith, Pontiac (a brickmaking settlement)^ Maple Leaf (a lumbering establishment), Terrence, Wayne, Bothell, Snohomish Junction, York, Redmond, Peterson, Inglewood, Monovon, Gilman, Preston, Falls City, Snoqualmie Falls, Snoqualmie, and South Bend,—or a station every mile and onethird of the way,—which would lead one to expect a populous country. The road is, however, constructed for the most part through an uncleared region, the whole population being at these several recently-opened settlements.

Bothell is the location of the Huron Lumber Company. Inglewood is on the border of Sammamish or Squawk Lake, a beautiful sheet of water in which there are standing submerged trees, showing subsidence of this part of the coal-basin. Monovon, also on this lake, is a picturesque place, which with the water and the hills has quite a Swiss aspect. Gilman, close up -to the mountains, is a raw, unpainted settlement, whose promise of future improvement lies in a large hop-field.

The Talley is evidently very rich in soil. I noted some wonderfully high maple-trees curiously swathed in yellow moss, and alder-trees of great growth ana beauty, their white and gray bark mottled with splashes of light green, showing clearly out from the gloom of the unbroken forest.

The train obligingly stops at the falls to give travellers an opportunity to alight and enjoy a five-minute view of the cataract.. This is a very delightful five minutes, which I prolonged into a half-hour by walking back from the next station before the train returned. The height of the fall is two hundred and sixty-eight feet. The stream descends on either side of a dividing island of rock, as at Niagara. On the east side of the rock it is projected in two separate strands, which gyrate at the start and twist together as steam comes out of a locomotivepipe. The effect is to throw the water into garlands of foam which, falling upon one another and being projected a long distance out, appear heaped up rather than falling. On the west side the water, dashed into foam, descends in two other streams —one fan-shaped—which, uniting half-way down, turn and join the main stream in one mass of feathery foam. The mist blown