Puget Sound,

Puget Sound, a large inland sea in the northwest of Washington, U.S., communicating with the Pacific by the Admiralty Inlet and Juan de Fuca Strait. It is divided into several branches, penetrates far into the interior, and is everywhere navigable for the largest vessels, which in most places can ride close to the shores, and load or unload without wharves. Great quantities of pine and fir are shipped from a country rich in timber.