The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . THE RIVER 23 these limits of vision lay anoble and historic country,the lower watershed of theColumbia. Earth has not anythingto show more fair. Wide as was the prospect,however, it called the im-agination to a still broaderview; to look back, indeed,—how many millions of years?—to an earlier dawn, bound-ed by the horizons of geo-logical time. Let us try torealize the panorama thusunfolded. As we look downfrom some aerial The Coming of the White Man andSacajawea, statues in PortlandCity Park which commemor

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The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . THE RIVER 23 these limits of vision lay anoble and historic country,the lower watershed of theColumbia. Earth has not anythingto show more fair. Wide as was the prospect,however, it called the im-agination to a still broaderview; to look back, indeed,—how many millions of years?—to an earlier dawn, bound-ed by the horizons of geo-logical time. Let us try torealize the panorama thusunfolded. As we look downfrom some aerial The Coming of the White Man andSacajawea, statues in PortlandCity Park which commemorate theaboriginal Americans. behold! there is no MountHood and no Cascade volcanic snow-peaks ofOregon and Washington arestill embryo in the womb ofearth. We stand face toface with the beginnings ofthe Northwest. Far south and east of ourcastle-in-the-air, islands riseslowly out of a Pacific thathas long rolled, unbroken, tothe Rocky Mountains. 24 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA

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