The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . nge. In every direction, city and country, farm and forest, valleyand mountain, stretches a noble perspective. From the wide rivers andtheir shining borders, almost at sea level, the scene arises, terrace upon ter-race, to the encircling hills, and spreads across range after range to the summits of the great Cascades. Dominating all are the snow-peaks,august sentinels upon the horizon. On aclear day, the long line of them begins fardown in central Oregon, and numbers sixsnowy domes. But any average day in-cludes in it
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . nge. In every direction, city and country, farm and forest, valleyand mountain, stretches a noble perspective. From the wide rivers andtheir shining borders, almost at sea level, the scene arises, terrace upon ter-race, to the encircling hills, and spreads across range after range to the summits of the great Cascades. Dominating all are the snow-peaks,august sentinels upon the horizon. On aclear day, the long line of them begins fardown in central Oregon, and numbers sixsnowy domes. But any average day in-cludes in its glory the three nearest, Hood,Adams, and St. Helens. Spirit-like, theyloom above the soft Oregon haze, theirglaciers signaling from peak to peak, andtheir shining summits bidding the sordidworld below to look upward. Nature has painted canvases more colorful, but none more perfect in its strength and rest. Here is no flare of the desert, none of the flamboyant, terrible Mount Hood, elevation 11,225 feet beauty of the Grand Canyon. It is a land S^--^ ; :>-,. O/ac/e/r^. THE MOUNTAINS 59
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