The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 26 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. The Columbia near Butler, looking across to Multnomah Falls. by upfolds on the north. Then its bed is hfted up and broken by forces ofwhich our present-day experiences give us no example. Instead of one greatlake, as drainage proceeds, we behold at last a wide country of many lakes and rivers. Their shores are clothed intropical vegetation. Under the palms,flourish a race of giant mammals. Thebroad-faced ox, the mylodon, mam-moth, elephant, rhinoceros, andmastodon, and with them the c
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 26 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA. The Columbia near Butler, looking across to Multnomah Falls. by upfolds on the north. Then its bed is hfted up and broken by forces ofwhich our present-day experiences give us no example. Instead of one greatlake, as drainage proceeds, we behold at last a wide country of many lakes and rivers. Their shores are clothed intropical vegetation. Under the palms,flourish a race of giant mammals. Thebroad-faced ox, the mylodon, mam-moth, elephant, rhinoceros, andmastodon, and with them the cameland the three-toed horse, roam theforests that are building the coal de-posits for a later age. This story ofthe Eocene and Miocene time is alsotold in the fossils of the period, andwe may read it in the strata depositedby the lakes. Age succeeds age, not always distinct, but often overlapping one another, and all changing the face of nature. The Coast Range rises, shut- .,..,. .. ting in vast gulfs to fill later, and Captain Som-Kin, chief of Indian poUce, ^6 ^ * ^ & Umatilla reservation. form th
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