The Columbia River . mighty convulsionof nature, shorn of crown and head, and now bearingon its summit instead the most singular body of water,Crater Lake, on all the American continent. Fifteen is the number of the great peaks named,but there are dozens of lesser heights, snow-crownedand regal. The great Cascade chain is, therefore, thenoblest and most significant feature of the topographyof the land of the Columbia. Between the RockyMountains and the Cascades lies what is locally knownas the Inland Empire, mainly a continuous prairie orseries of prairies and valleys, wheat land, orchard land
The Columbia River . mighty convulsionof nature, shorn of crown and head, and now bearingon its summit instead the most singular body of water,Crater Lake, on all the American continent. Fifteen is the number of the great peaks named,but there are dozens of lesser heights, snow-crownedand regal. The great Cascade chain is, therefore, thenoblest and most significant feature of the topographyof the land of the Columbia. Between the RockyMountains and the Cascades lies what is locally knownas the Inland Empire, mainly a continuous prairie orseries of prairies and valleys, wheat land, orchard land,garden land, fertile, beautiful, attractive, broken by anoccasional mountain spur, as the irregular mass of theBlue Mountains, but substantially an inhabited land,reaching from Colville, Spokane, and the Okanoganon the north to the Klamath valleys on the south, aregion five hundred miles long by two hundred wide. Such are the distinguishing features of the Colum-bia Basin on the east side of the Cascade o ,_] o ^ <i; r •o ^ S o ^^ ^ C o o a: The Land where the River Flows 15 To the west of those mountains is another vastexpanse of interior valleys, not so large indeed andnot more fertile, but even more beautiful, and by-reason of earlier settlement and contiguity to the ocean,better developed. This series of valleys is enclosed between the Cas-cade Mountains and the Coast Range, and in a generalway parallels the Inland Empire already this statement should be qualified by the explanationthat North-western Washington consists of the PugetSound Basin, which is a distinct geographical system,while South-western Oregon consists of the Umpquaand Rogue River valleys, and these valleys thoughcommercially and politically a part of the Columbiasystem, are geographically separate, since they debouchdirectly into the Pacific Ocean. There is left, there-fore, for the Columbia region proper west of the Cas-cade Mountains, the Willamette Valley in Oregon, andt
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