The Beauties of the state of Washington : a book for tourists . tfOUNT RAINIER. NATIONAL PARK. fc> What vastness ana sublimity A/Vere spread Leiore our ea^r^ze!What wilcLaricLvariecL scenery!JVhat pictures ror the poets lays. *— One day, late in summer, I was sitting upon a commandingpromontory nearly 7,000 feet in altitude, entranced by a pano-ramic view most wonderful to behold. The sky was clear, thesuns warm rays were unobstructed, and the air I breathed pureas the nectar of heaven. Only five hours before I had left thecity of Tacoma and a little earlier Seattle—two great citiesthrobbin
The Beauties of the state of Washington : a book for tourists . tfOUNT RAINIER. NATIONAL PARK. fc> What vastness ana sublimity A/Vere spread Leiore our ea^r^ze!What wilcLaricLvariecL scenery!JVhat pictures ror the poets lays. *— One day, late in summer, I was sitting upon a commandingpromontory nearly 7,000 feet in altitude, entranced by a pano-ramic view most wonderful to behold. The sky was clear, thesuns warm rays were unobstructed, and the air I breathed pureas the nectar of heaven. Only five hours before I had left thecity of Tacoma and a little earlier Seattle—two great citiesthrobbing with the activities of nearly a half million people en-gaged in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits. Just beyond the foothills visible towards the west were thegreen valleys in which these metropolitan centers lay—the near-est only forty miles distant by an air line, close to the waters ofof Puget Sound. Yet here, almost in sight of them, I was en-joying a quietude known only to the haunts of nature. Morethan seven thousand feet above me towered the majestic domeof the second highest pinnacle in the United State, reservingobservation to the north until its summit should be reached,while far toward the east and
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