The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . The Coming of the White Man andSacajawea, statues in PortlandCity Park which commemorate theaboriginal Americans. behold! there is no MountHood and no Cascade volcanic snow-peaks ofOregon and Washington arestill embryo in the womb ofearth. We stand face toface with the beginnings ofthe Northwest. Far south and east of ourcastle-in-the-air, islands riseslowly out of a Pacific thathas long rolled, unbroken, tothe Rocky Mountains. 24 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. We see the oceanbed pushed abovethe tide in wha
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . The Coming of the White Man andSacajawea, statues in PortlandCity Park which commemorate theaboriginal Americans. behold! there is no MountHood and no Cascade volcanic snow-peaks ofOregon and Washington arestill embryo in the womb ofearth. We stand face toface with the beginnings ofthe Northwest. Far south and east of ourcastle-in-the-air, islands riseslowly out of a Pacific thathas long rolled, unbroken, tothe Rocky Mountains. 24 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. We see the oceanbed pushed abovethe tide in what menof later ages will callthe Siskiyou and theBlue Mountains, onerange in southwest-ern, the other in east-ern, Oregon. A thirduptilt, the great Oka-nogan, in northernWashington, soon ap-pears. All else is these primi-tive uplands, thedate is written in the fossil archives of their ancient sea beaches, raised thou-sands of feet above the former shore-line level. At a time when all westernEurope was still ocean, and busy foraminifers were strewing its floor withshells to form the chalk beds of France and England, these first lands of ourNorthwest emerged from the great deep. It is but a glimpse we get into theimmeasurable distance of the Paleozoic. Its time-units are centuries insteadof minutes. Another glance, as the next long geological age passes, and we perceivea second step in the making of the West. It is the gradual uplift of a thinsea-dike, separating the two islands first disclosed, and stretching from thepresent Lower
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