The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 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
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 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 blew his wreathed horn. Cold and uncanny, all that seethingocean was silent as a windless lake under summer stars. It was a sea of clouds. Swiftly the dawnmarched sun, breakingacross the easternridges, sent long levelbeams to sprinkle thecloud-sea with touch was magic-al. The billows brokeand parted. Themists fled in after cloud . c,. ^ ^ Astoria in 1813, showing the tradmg post establishedarose and was caught by John Jacob
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