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Definition of Puget Sound
1. Noun. An inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puget Sound
Literary usage of Puget Sound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"That was very hastily said, I assure you, for if one were to live several
generations of lives here in this Puget Sound country he could never see all, ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1885)
"THE forest shores of Puget Sound have become fairly civilized as the ...
Civilization would go rather slow if it had not Puget Sound lumber to work up. ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1857)
"Planorbis vermicularis, G., interior of Oregon. Page 46. Melania bulbosa,
G., Columbia River. 49. Natica Lewisii, G., Puget Sound and Columbia River. 50. ..."
4. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"North of that river the depression is continued by the Cowlitz Valley and lesser
valleys tributary to the southern end of Puget Sound. ..."
5. The Journal of Geography by National Council of Geography Teachers (U.S.) (1902)
"SEATTLE THE Port of Puget Sound, which includes all the cities around the Sound,
surpasses all other Pacific Coast ports of the United States in the volume ..."
6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1917)
"THE following notes, unless otherwise specified, are taken entirely from the
vicinity of Tacoma, Washington, which is situated on Puget Sound at the head of ..."
7. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"Puget Sound SALMON. EL KELLOGG. The salmon is the king of our Northern fishes.
... The tackle in universal use on Puget sound, and, in fact, in all Pacific ..."
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