The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . Mount St. Helens, seen from the Columbia at Vancouver, with railwaybridge in foreground. 16 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. View up the Columbia on nortli side, opposite Astoria. Noon rest of the night fishermen. Much of thefishing on the lower Columbia is done at night with gill-nets from small boats. The river is heresix miles wide. stress. No watcher from the crags, none who go down to the sea in ships,ever beheld a scene more awful. Ceaselessly the mighty surges piled upagainst the ridge at our feet, as if to tear
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . Mount St. Helens, seen from the Columbia at Vancouver, with railwaybridge in foreground. 16 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. View up the Columbia on nortli side, opposite Astoria. Noon rest of the night fishermen. Much of thefishing on the lower Columbia is done at night with gill-nets from small boats. The river is heresix miles wide. stress. No watcher from the crags, none who go down to the sea in ships,ever beheld a scene more awful. Ceaselessly the mighty surges piled upagainst the ridge at our feet, as if to tear away the solid foundations of themountain. Towers and castles of foam were built up, huge and white,against the sullen sky, only to hurl themselves into the gulf. Far to thenorth, dimly above this gray and heaving surface were seen the crests ofthree snow-mantled mountains, paler even than the undulating expanse fromwhich they emerged. All between was a wild sea that rolled across sixtymiles of space to assail those ghostly islands. Yet the tossing breakers gave forth no roar. It was a spectral and panto-mimic ocean. We had sight of Proteus rising from the sea, but no Triton ofthe upper air b
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