What to see in America . Oregon 509. Cape Horn and Cigar Rock noteworthy examples ofNatures chiseling. Themost glorious of the cata-racts that come tumblingdown from the adjacentheights is Multnomah,which plunges over a cliffsix hundred and seven feethigh into a resounding pool,and then makes a secondleap of sixty-seven feet tothe river shore. Passengertrains on the adjacent rail-road slow down to give thepeople in the cars a goodview of the falls. The Col-umbia itself descends fiftyfeet within a half mile at the Cascades. Navigation washalted here by the ledges and bowlders over which the wat
What to see in America . Oregon 509. Cape Horn and Cigar Rock noteworthy examples ofNatures chiseling. Themost glorious of the cata-racts that come tumblingdown from the adjacentheights is Multnomah,which plunges over a cliffsix hundred and seven feethigh into a resounding pool,and then makes a secondleap of sixty-seven feet tothe river shore. Passengertrains on the adjacent rail-road slow down to give thepeople in the cars a goodview of the falls. The Col-umbia itself descends fiftyfeet within a half mile at the Cascades. Navigation washalted here by the ledges and bowlders over which the waterfroths until 1896, when the government spent several milliondollars to build a canal and locks. On either side the moun-tains tower into the sky in stony terraces and shatteredcliffs, calm and majestic guardians of the vale. Accordingto an Indian legend, the river formerly was spanned hereby a mighty natural bridge, beneath which the water flowedsmoothly in an unbroken channel. At one time there livedon the Oregon side a young bra
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