. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. GORGE OF THE COLUMBIA 15 yond words — wild, aboriginal, yet with such beauty and winsome gentleness and delicacy. The river was al- most half the width of the Hudson and much more wind- ing. The geologists speculated upon the formation as it was laid bare in places; the botanists upon the wild flow- ers that painted the shore; the ornithologists upon the birds seen and heard. Swarms of cliff swallows were ob- served about the basaltic rocks near the water. There were not many signs of rural life — here and there low rude farmhouses on the d
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. GORGE OF THE COLUMBIA 15 yond words — wild, aboriginal, yet with such beauty and winsome gentleness and delicacy. The river was al- most half the width of the Hudson and much more wind- ing. The geologists speculated upon the formation as it was laid bare in places; the botanists upon the wild flow- ers that painted the shore; the ornithologists upon the birds seen and heard. Swarms of cliff swallows were ob- served about the basaltic rocks near the water. There were not many signs of rural life — here and there low rude farmhouses on the deltas of land at the mouths of the side gorges, and at least one very large fruit farm on a low level area on our right. A novel sight was the long wooden and wire wheat chutes for running the wheat down from the farms back on the high mountain table lands to the river, where the boats could pick it up. They were tokens of a life and fertility quite un- seen and unsuspected. MULTNOMAH FALLS. The ride in the train along the south bank of the Columbia toward Portland, past The Dal- les, past the Cascades, past Oneonta Gorge and the Mult- nomah and Latourelle Falls, is a feast of the beautiful and the sublime — the most delicate tints and colors of moss and wild flowers setting off the most rugged alpine scenery. In places the railroad embankment is decked with brilliant patches of red and purple flowers, as if garlanded for a festival. Presently the moss-covered rocks are white-aproned with the clear mountain brooks. LATOURELLE FALLS. 260 FEET Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942; Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D. C. ). New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
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