The Columbia River . up, thousands offeet, toward Death and Morning on the Silver-horns. We must study shore and water as we passslowly by, finding therein ample confirmation of thetheory of glacial origin. This is one of the deepest canons on earth. Notsuch another furrow has Time wrought on the face ofthe Western Hemisphere, at least. At some points thegranite walls rise almost verticallj^ six thousand feetfrom the waters edge. Here, too, soundings ofseventeen hundred feet have been necessary to touchbottom. Over a mile and a half of verticality! Thissurpasses in depth Yosemite, Yellowstone,
The Columbia River . up, thousands offeet, toward Death and Morning on the Silver-horns. We must study shore and water as we passslowly by, finding therein ample confirmation of thetheory of glacial origin. This is one of the deepest canons on earth. Notsuch another furrow has Time wrought on the face ofthe Western Hemisphere, at least. At some points thegranite walls rise almost verticallj^ six thousand feetfrom the waters edge. Here, too, soundings ofseventeen hundred feet have been necessary to touchbottom. Over a mile and a half of verticality! Thissurpasses in depth Yosemite, Yellowstone, Columbia,or even Colorado Canon. As compared with thosemore familiar wonders, Chelan lacks the incomparablesymmetry and completeness of Yosemite; it has notsuch a multitude of waterfalls and groups of castledcrags as are seen within the basaltic gates of theColumbia; it does not display that variety of colour-ing, especially of the lighter and warmer hues, whichastonishes the beholder of the Colorado or the Yellow-. o 3o o The Lakes from Arrow Lakes to Chelan 311 stone, and it has no especially curious feature like thegeysers of the last; but for immensity, for a certainchaotic sublimity, for the rich and sombre grandeur ofthe purple and garnet, dusky, and indigo-tinted shoreviews, Chelan surpasses any of the others, while inits water views,—such colourings and such blendings,light-green, ultramarine, lapis lazuli, violet, indigo,almost black,—such light and shade, sea of glassmingled with fire, where every cloud in the chang-ing sky and all the untold majesty of the hills findtheir perfect mirror, all hues and forms, a kaleidoscopeof earth and heaven, beyond imagination to conceiveor pen to describe or brush to portray,—in all this,Chelan is without a rival. As ^ve round a shaggy promontory, there the snow-peaks stand in battle array, azure, purple, amethystine,with lines and masses of glistening white, flushed ontheir topmost pinnacles with rosy light from the west-eri
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