Excerpt from Harrison's Guide and Resources of the Pacific Slope, Vol. 1: Part 1, Embracing Washington Territory, Giving a Minute Description of Its Lands and Facilities for Settlement, Land Laws, Climate, Resources, Etc First the high lands - are in places broken and hilly but much of it is table land and gently undulating. In the northern por tion of the Territory these lands are generally more or less gravelly and granite boulders are occasionally seen, in the south ern part it is mostly free of gravel. In the former, a sandy loam; in the latter, a clay loam. The timber consists principally of fir, cedar and hemlock; there is also vine maple, soft maple, willow, alder, elder, cherry, dogwood, crab-apple, hazel, etc., etc. In many places these lands have been nearly denuded of timber by the numerous fires that have passed through it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.