Word: carrituek
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Dates: during 1887-1887
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...extravagant in comparison with previous bills, but it contained many items which were plainly for local improvements in unknown places. He showed a map on which a red wafer marked each place for which appropriations were made by the bill, and mentioned among others Mispillion Creek, Carrituek Sound, Coanjok Bay, Chefuncte River and Bogue Phalia, and proposed to turn over to the Modern Language Association the Skagit, Nootsack Stelaquamish. Snokomish and Snoqualmie Rivers. Often the improvement was of use to nobody, as in the case of one river which could be carried by a twelve-inch drain. In another case...
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