. The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon. olumbia have been shotdown the various rapids, and are now used in the middleand lower portions of the river. If a day can be spared,no tourist should fail to visit the Great Dalles, fivemiles above Dalles City, where the Columbia, whichbelow and above is almost a mile wide, is confined in abasaltic channel only one hundred and seventy-four feetwide in its narrowest place. It is a river literally turned on edge, and its depth at this place has notyet been det
. The Pacific coast scenic tour, from southern California to Alaska, the Canadian Pacific railway, Yellowstone Park and the Grand Cañon. olumbia have been shotdown the various rapids, and are now used in the middleand lower portions of the river. If a day can be spared,no tourist should fail to visit the Great Dalles, fivemiles above Dalles City, where the Columbia, whichbelow and above is almost a mile wide, is confined in abasaltic channel only one hundred and seventy-four feetwide in its narrowest place. It is a river literally turned on edge, and its depth at this place has notyet been determined, owing to the rapidity of the cur-rent. In that portion of the Columbia lying betweenCelilo and Walla-Walla there is little interesting sceneryalong the banks, but tourists returning East on the Cana-dian Pacific Pailroad once more come across this river,— the real upper Columbia, — where it again coursesamidst snow-mountains, and where it still is navigablefor one hundred and fifty miles. Truly the Columbiais a sublime river which some day will have its mono-graph, and will inspire as much immortal poetry as AND WASHINGTON SNOW PEAKS. FROM PORTLAND TO TACOMA VIEWS OF AND FROM MT. HOOD AMERICAN SCENERY ADVANTAGES OF ISOLA-TION ASCENT OF MT. ST. HELENS MASCULINE AND FEMININE PEAKS TACOMA AND THE JUNGFRAU AMER-ICAN NAMES FOR AMERICAN MOUNTAINS INDIAN NAMES A HOP VALLEY CASCADE DIVISION OF THE NORTH-ERN PACIFIC RAILROAD MT. TACOMA ITS FOURTEEN GLACIERS AND FIVE RIVERS. There is geological evidence that Washingtonsgreat inland sea, Puget Sound, the Pacific Mediterra-nean, once extended as far south as the WillametteValley in Oregon. To-day, Portland and Tacoma areabout one huncbed and fifty miles apart, and the tripmay be made either by boat down the Columbia andthrough the Straits of Juan de Fuca into the Sound, orby the branch road of the Northern Pacific Railroadoverland. In either case, if the view is not impeded bysmoke or clouds, a magnific
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