What to see in America . rowned peaks,the best beloved of which to Oregonians is Mt. Hood, theloftiest height in the state. It has an altitude of 11,225 feet. On Swan Island, a short distance from Portland up theWillamette, a Frenchman cleared the first Oregon farm in1829. Ten miles farther up the river is Oregon City, with itsGreat Falls, formed by the water leaping in numerouscascades down a total descent of forty feet. Many big millscongregate about the falls now. Just below the falls is afavorite resort for fishermen to test their skill with the linewhen the chinook salmon are running upst
What to see in America . rowned peaks,the best beloved of which to Oregonians is Mt. Hood, theloftiest height in the state. It has an altitude of 11,225 feet. On Swan Island, a short distance from Portland up theWillamette, a Frenchman cleared the first Oregon farm in1829. Ten miles farther up the river is Oregon City, with itsGreat Falls, formed by the water leaping in numerouscascades down a total descent of forty feet. Many big millscongregate about the falls now. Just below the falls is afavorite resort for fishermen to test their skill with the linewhen the chinook salmon are running upstream in the latespring. Sometimes more than a hundred rowboats of theanglers can be seen there, capturing the gleaming salmon thatweigh from twenty to sixty-five pounds. Another importantplace beside theWillamette isSalem, the cap-ital of the state,settled in 1834. To see theColumbia at itsbest you shouldjourney fromPortland to theDalles, a dis-tance of nearlyone hundred miles. The rail- Tunnel on CoLUiMBiA River Highway. 508 What to See in America road is close to the shore much of the way, and the viewsfrom the car window are quite entrancing, but only from the river steamer do you get thefull beauty of the scenes. Asyou go up the river the valleyis at first broad and pastoral,a succession of billowy hillswith their farms and forest,their scattered homes andgrazing lands. Gradually thehills lift into wooded bluffs,and you at times find rockyprecipices rising from thewaters edge, or lonely pin-nacles like monster monu-ments. The stream resemblesthe most romantic portionsof the Hudson, but it is anuntamed river of the wilder-ness with a vigor and a charmall its own. Willows and cot-tonwoods fringe the shores,but the crags and slopes arealmost solidly clothed withevergreens. The part of theriver that has the most scenicattraction is the fifty-milegorge through the CascadeMountains. The western gateof the gorge is twenty-twomiles from Portland. RoosterRock near Crown Point, and)A
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