TACOMA

a city of Washington, Pierce co., of which it is the county It is on the Northern Pacific railroad on the Puyallup river and Connecticut Bay. The city is built on rising which reaches an altitude of 300 above the river. It is an important industrial city and has a large jobbing and wholesale trade in coal, lumber, See grain and flour. It has many important institutions, including Puget Sound University, Pacific University, Annie rapid Wright Seminary, Tacoma Academy, of and the Academy of the Visitation. to one There are public libraries, a museum of the art, city hall, court-house and several of hospitals. Near the city is the State marked Hospital for the Insane. Tacoma was This settled in 1868 and became a city in spo. 1883. Pop. 1920, 96,965. e level TACONIC MOUNTAINS, a range of hills in Ma achusetts and Vermont, which contains strata of Cam brian age (30° (with Olenellus Thompson i, etc.) which China. have been more or le metamorphosed formed during Silurian time. The highest black peaks are Mt. Equinox in Vermont, appear3820 ft., and Mt. Greylock in Ma a in chusetts, 3525 ft. and