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this disintegration, which has been going on time out of mind, cease, and the vein be exhausted?

On Eliza Island, in the bay, is a chicken-hatchery, which turns out one thousand per week during the season. Yendori Island, a high, rocky, and picturesque splinter of earth set in the waters just where it produces the most beautiful effect against the sky and the far-off shore line, is a sheep rancho.

Chuckanut Bay, on the east shore of the greater bay, three miles south of Fairhaven, is the site of the famous sandstone quarry, upon which all the cities of the coast have at times had to draw for building-stone. It is in the side of a precipice, and the people who live about the quarry are almost as isolated by their elevation as the cliff-dwellers of Arizona.

Sehome and Whatcom are so near together, and so near to Fairhaven, that all are in effect one city, although under different municipal governments. Whatcom is the county-seat, and has a fine court-house. The streets are full of busy people, and the town has a substantial and respectable air, as becomes its age, though, truth to say, this appearance has been but recently put on. Sehome has two large hotels,—the "Sehome" and the " Grand Central."

Fairhaven, although so young, has four thousand and thirtyone inhabitants. Its finest hotel is the "Fairhaven," built of brick and stone, well situated, with a fine view of the harbor. It has an excellent system of water-works, four banks, two newspapers, electric-light service, telegraph and telephone communication, three churches completed, and others building, good schools, saw-mills, brick-yards, and factories. It has a railroad being .built to connect with the Westminster Southern, and through that with the Canadian Pacific at Blaine (Fairhaven and Northern, opened in February, 1891). The Fairhaven and Southern is also being constructed, which is making for the coalmines in the Skagit Yalley, crossing the river at Sedro, proceeding south to Seattle to connect with the Northern Pacific, and also building east up the Skagit to the coal-, marble-, granite-, and silver-mines in that direction, and ultimately to go to Spokane.

Fort Bellingham, a stone fort, built in 1856 by Captain Pickett, who became a general in the Confederate army, is situated about