. Review of reviews and world's work. burning seas of the SnakeRiver Plain. Nevertheless, the glory of all our mountainranges are these kings of volcanic giants whichdwell up and down the Pacific Coast. LassensPeak, Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, and othersare not wholly dead but sleeping, as is shown bytheir hot springs and the sulphurous gases andsteam emitted from theircraters. Around the formerare many little volcanoeswhich often throw forthshowers of mud, and givewarnings of something pos-sibly more dangerous in theirrumbling sounds. MountShasta, with its 14,442 feetof height, has a crater on
. Review of reviews and world's work. burning seas of the SnakeRiver Plain. Nevertheless, the glory of all our mountainranges are these kings of volcanic giants whichdwell up and down the Pacific Coast. LassensPeak, Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, and othersare not wholly dead but sleeping, as is shown bytheir hot springs and the sulphurous gases andsteam emitted from theircraters. Around the formerare many little volcanoeswhich often throw forthshowers of mud, and givewarnings of something pos-sibly more dangerous in theirrumbling sounds. MountShasta, with its 14,442 feetof height, has a crater one-third as broad and 1,000 feetdeep, with a rim so sharp asto hardly afford room for anights bivouac. On its slopesare remains of hundreds ofsmaller cones and. craters. Less massive, but far morechaste and beautiful, thanShasta, Mount Hood is thevery embodiment of sublim-ity and grace—if such aword can apply to a sky-piercing cone of almost per-fect proportions from baseto summit. The view of FOLCANIC SCENERY OF THE NORTHWEST. 205. SNOQUALMIE FALLS. (At base of Mount Rainier.) Mount Hood, from Portland and various pointsalong the Columbia, is well worth a journeyacross the continent. It is not easy to recon-cile this wondrous shaft ; more brilliantly re-splendent, in its glittering garb of snow, than iffashioned out of the whitest marble, with a towerof plutonian energy belching fortli (ire and smokeand unclean lava. How-ever, those who ascend itfind abundant evidences ofsmoldering fires in thescalding steam which es-capes from numerous fis-sures. The constantly increas-ing grandeur of this vol-canic region culminates inMount Rainier, the crownedmonarch of all our upper half, clad withsnow and living glaciers,and with its vast, isolatedbulk planted on the veryshores of Puget Rainier impressesthe beholder far more thanmountains of almost equallieight in tlie interior, be-cause the general elevation usually makes up more than half the heightof the latter.
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