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National Geographic : 1951 Jun
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723 J. P . lRichardson Steel Mills Line the Smoky Cuyahoga; Ore Boats Feed Cleveland's Blast Furnaces Before emptying into Lake Erie, the Cuyahoga cuts through the heart of Cleveland. Factories and warehouses cluster along its industrial flats. A docked ore carrier here replenishes Republic Steel's stock piles. Zenith and point out her apartment house. On another holiday Miss Shaw had driven to the rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula where, having seen my tickets, she knew I was bound. "Be sure to drive as far as you can up the Hoh River Valley and then get out of your car and walk a mile. It's wonderful. Not many know about it. I really shouldn't tell you, because you'll put it in the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. I don't want to find popcorn vendors there when I go back." After a night in Seattle I took off from Boeing Field for Port Angeles. Only a few of the flight's 35 minutes had slipped away when I was able to predict good weather. Basis for my prediction was a breath-taking view of the jagged, snow capped Olympic Mountains on our left, the smooth, island-spotted and boat-specked waters of Puget Sound below, and on our far right a snow-capped peak which, my map told me, was Mount Baker. Watching the distinctive shapes of islands, points, bays, and sounds pass beneath was like comparing The Society's Northwestern United States map with a beautifully colored large scale chart with no place names on it. As we neared Port Townsend we veered westward, and I turned my map to keep it lined up with the scene below. Port Town send lies at the northern end of Admiralty Inlet, which links the waters of Juan de Fuca with Puget Sound. North of Sequim (the "e" is as silent as the "h" in Thomas) is Dungeness Spit, point ing like a bony finger in the direction of Mount Baker. In the shelter of Ediz Hook, a similar natural breakwater some 12 miles to the west, lies Port Angeles, where we landed. Trek to the Rain Forests Next morning the Olympic Mountains were getting some of the 140 inches of annual precipitation which are responsible for the towering spruce, fir, cedar, and hemlock that grow in primeval splendor on their western
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