. The Pacific tourist . he canon wall, aquarter of a mile far-ther down, and from thebrink of the precipiceover which the riverplunges. Let us approachand look over. Down,down goes the whirl-ing mass, writhing andbattling with the rocks,against which it dasheswith a noise like the dis-charge of heavy artillery. Here and there, aresisting rock is met, and the water rebouncbroken into myriads of drops, which throwback to us the sunlight resolved into its primi-tive colors. The bottom reached, the columnbreaks into an immense cloud of spray, whosemoisture nourishes the vegetation on the wanear th
. The Pacific tourist . he canon wall, aquarter of a mile far-ther down, and from thebrink of the precipiceover which the riverplunges. Let us approachand look over. Down,down goes the whirl-ing mass, writhing andbattling with the rocks,against which it dasheswith a noise like the dis-charge of heavy artillery. Here and there, aresisting rock is met, and the water rebouncbroken into myriads of drops, which throwback to us the sunlight resolved into its primi-tive colors. The bottom reached, the columnbreaks into an immense cloud of spray, whosemoisture nourishes the vegetation on the wanear the fall. The river, before it pours overthe edge, narrows to about a hundred height of the fall has been variouslygiven. The measurement with a line in 1870,gave 350 feet as the result. Triangulation fn mia base line on the edge of the canon, by theGeological Survey in 1872, made it 397 feet,and a barometrical measurement in 1873, byCaptain Jones, made it feet. The Upper Falls are about a quarter of a mile. ASCENDING THE GLACIERS OF MT. HAYDEN. 346 TME &&GIF1G T®W®tSW.
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