. The great Northwest, a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, the Oregon and California Railroad, containing descriptions of States, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest . eval forest, 1,400 feet above thepresent ocean level, are ancient shore lines of the sea, which has left itstrace in similar
. The great Northwest, a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, the Oregon and California Railroad, containing descriptions of States, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest . eval forest, 1,400 feet above thepresent ocean level, are ancient shore lines of the sea, which has left itstrace in similar terraces in all the valleys about the Sound. Thence thetrail extends southward over a level plateau. Car))on River Caiion is buthalf a mile away on the west, and five miles from Wilkeson the valley abovethe canon is reached. The descent to the river is over three miles alongthe hillside eastward. From Wilkeson to the river the way is all through a belt of forest,where the conditions of growth are very favorable. The fir trees aremassive, straight and free from limbs to a great height. The larger ones,eight to twelve feet in diameter on a level with a mans head, carry theirsize upward, tapering very gradually, till near the toi) they shoot out athick mat of foliage, and the trunk in a few feet diminishes to a point. Onesuch was measured; it stands like a huge obelisk, 180 feet, without a liml),supporting a crown of but forty feet more. slender trees are,. The Glaciers of Mount Tacoma. 269 curiously enough, the taller; straight, clear shafts rise 100 to 150 feet, toppedwith foliage whose highest needles would look down on Trinity , hemlocks, spruce and white fir mingle with these giants, but theydo not compete with them in height; they fill in the spaces in the vast col-onnades. Below is the carpet of deep golden gieen moss and glossy ferns,and the tangle of vines and bushes that covers the fallen trunks of thefathers of the forest. The silence of these mount
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