whirl-pits

Updated: May 9, 2025

Some of these whirl-pits are ten or fifteen feet deep, measured by the trees that are sucked down into them. The most remarkable part of the river is where it is compressed to one-sixth of its width, in passing through a mountain gorge three-quarters of a mile long.

Caroline C. Leighton - Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California