The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 18 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA away into space. The tops of the Cascade ranges below came, one by one,into view. Lower and lower, with the shortening shadows, the wooded slopeswere revealed in the morning light. Here and there some deep vale was stillwhite and hidden. Scattered cloud-fleeces clung to pinnacles on the , the snow-peaks in Washington towered higher. Great banks offog embraced their forested abutments, and surged up to their glaciers. Butthe icy summits smiled in the gladness of a new da
The guardians of the Columbia, Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St Helens . 18 THE GUARDIANS OF THE COLUMBIA away into space. The tops of the Cascade ranges below came, one by one,into view. Lower and lower, with the shortening shadows, the wooded slopeswere revealed in the morning light. Here and there some deep vale was stillwhite and hidden. Scattered cloud-fleeces clung to pinnacles on the , the snow-peaks in Washington towered higher. Great banks offog embraced their forested abutments, and surged up to their glaciers. Butthe icy summits smiled in the gladness of a new day. The reign of darkness andmist was broken. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock or hill. Clearer and wider the picture grew. Below us, the orchards of HoodRiver caught the fresh breezes and laughed in the first sunshine. The dayreached down into the nearer canyons, and saluted the busy, leaping waterfalls filled the glens with spray, and built rainbows from bank to bank, then hurriedand tumbled on, inconceited haste, as if
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