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From: Cyndi Howells <>
Subject: Re: Puget Sound location
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 23:43:41 -0700


At 03:14 PM 5/28/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Cyndi, sorry to disagree with you, but Puget Sound includes any part of the
>western section of Washington state whose rivers flow west into the salt
>water of Puget Sound. I was born and raised in Bellingham many score years
>ago, and all of us from that area of Western Washington would be most
>surprised and dismayed to learn that Puget Sound ended at Marysville. No
>way! Puget Sound extends all the distance to the border with Canada, north
>of Blaine. (Who knows? Maybe the Vancouver, B.C.-ites also believe they
>live on Puget Sound!) The Heritage Dictionary says 'Puget Sound is a deep
>inlet of the Pacific in W WA." I would suppose that would make a case for
>the eastern slope of the Olympic Peninsula also being part of "Puget's Sound"
>- Murray Morgan's take on its original name after Peter Puget, friend of
>Capt. Vancouver.
>

Thank you for letting me know I was off in my thinking Persis! I was
trying to be as literal as possible in my technical description for the
list. However, I have always been personally inclined to think of ALL of
Western Washington as the Puget Sound area. So I guess I wasn't too far
off in my idea for the definition of the list.

Cyndi

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