15 much water action going on beneath the gl sheet or at least at the breaking up of it. That the sound with its innumerable islands & inlets were carved out of the solid is plain from the fact of this formating stratified sandstone [near] level are [continued] from shore to shore everywhere as far as I have seen. The Olympus Range very beautiful & telling in the scenery the snow peaks veiled in clouds. Mt Olympus 8000? ft Mt Rainier visible in clear weather from the [sound] in many [places]. 16 The [beauty of the] shores exceedingly rich in trees Doug spruce, menzies spruce, thuja gigantea, [picea] abies [grandis] & madrone the latter in flower now. 24th. From Victoria to Port Townsend, a beautiful village on bluff scenery like that of...