The waters of Puget Sound separate the mountainous, timbered Olympic Peninsula from the Washington mainland. There is only one point in the 20,000 square miles covered by the Sound where the Peninsula shore and the shore of the mainland are closethe famed, fabled Narrows at Tacoma, 85 miles from the mouth of the Sound, where the surging water boils through a deep passage, a little short of a mile wide. No one can swim the Narrows; the tides are too swift, the water too cold. The Narrows make one of the Northwest's dramatic...
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