Show UNCLE TOMS UNKNOWN LAND washington has her great unknown land like the interior of africa says the seattle press frew the country shut in by the olympic mountains which includes an area of about 2000 miles square has never to the positive knowledge of old residents of the territory been trodden by the foot of man white or indian these mountains rise from the level of the country within ten or fifteen miles of the straits of san ban juan do de fuca in the north the pacific ocean in the west hoods canal in the east and the basin of quinault lake in the south and rising to the height of or feet shut in a vast unexplored area the indians hava never penetrated it for their traditions say that it is 18 ld inhabited habited 8 py oy a fierce tribe which none of the coast tri tribes bem dare molest though it is improbable that such a tribe could have existed in the mountain country without their presence becoming known to the white men no man has ever aacen ascertained bained that it did not exist white men too have only vague accounts of f abay any white man having passed through this country for investigation of all the claims of trave tra veloiS lets has invariably proved that they have only traveled its outer edges the most gei theory in regard to this country is that it consisted of great valleys stretching from the inward slopes or the mountain mounta to a great central basin the theory is supported by the fact that although the country round has abundant rain and clouds constantly bang over the mountain tops all the streams flowing toward the tour four points are insignificant and rise only on the outward detward slopes of the range none appearing to drain the great lakes shut in by the mountains this fact ap pears to support the theory that streams flowing from the inner slopes of the mountains feed a great interior lake but what dral drains no this lake ake it must have an outlet some where and as all the st streams reanis pouring from the mountains rise in their outward slopes it must have a subterranean outlet to the oceantie oce ocean anthe the straights or the sound there are great discoveries in store for washington Pa explorers |