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the water. What cloud, piled massive on the hori- gum to chewers of pig tail, cooks of chowder or cooks
zon, could cast an image so sharp in outline, so full of gumbo know little of theso treasures of theirs,
of vigorous detail of surface? No cloud, as my stare, Toet comes long after pioneer. Mountains havo been
1 nuaoandn l!ortrttTQral nn tAnnA u-aWtnrr orAn in nn!int trnrlila fnf PVelpjL wlllll) lTlrin
csolating
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epherea as its image displaced the bine deeps of tren- Utorma. It is only lately, in the development of
quil water. The smoky haze of an Oregon Angust men's comprehension of Nature, that mountains hate
hid all the length of its lesser ridges, and left the been recognized as our noblest friends, our most ei
mighty summit based upon uplifting dimness. Only siting and inspiring comrades, our grandest emblems
its splendid snows were visible, high in the unoarthly of divino power and divino peace I
regions of clear, blue, noonday sky. Tho shore lino had been followiog thus for many hours the blind
drew a cincture of pines across the broad base where path, harsh, darksome and utterly lonely, urging on
it faded unreal into the mist The same dark girth with no outlook, encountering no landmark. At last,
separated the peak from its reflection, over which my as I stormed a ragged crest, gaining a height that
canoe waB now pressing, and sending wavering swells overtopped the firs, and, halting there for panting
to shatter the beautiful visions before it Kingly moments, I glanced to see if I had achieved mastery
and alone stood this msjesty, without any visible as well as position. As I looked, somewhat wearily
comrade or consort, though far to the north and south and drearily, across tho solemn surges of forest, aud
ita brethren and sisters dominated their realms, each denly above their sombre green appeared Tacoma.
in isolated sovereignty, rising above the pine-dark- Large and neighbor it stood, so near that every jewel
ened sierra of the Cascade mountains, above the stern of it. snow field, seemed to send me a .epara la xy,
chasm where the Columbia -Achille. of rivers- yet not so near but that I could, with one look, take in
sweeps, short-lived and jubilant, to the sea; above the iU whole image, from clear-cut odgo to dg. All
ovely vales of the Willamette and Umpqua. Of .11 around it the dark evergreen, mo like a ruff; a W.
the peaks, from California to Fraser river, this one them the mountain splendor, .welled state her for the
before m was royalest Mount Kegnier, christian, contrast Bunlght o noon wss .o refulgent u,m
have dubbed it, in stupid nomenclature perpetuating the crown, and lay so thick and dazzling m no,, . a d
thTname oTsomebody or nobody. More melodious- chasms, that tho eye sought re,K,.o of genUer Lghta,
v the SiwaT. call it Tacoma. Whatever keen and found it in shadow nook, and clefts, where,
Lu and cS there may be in iU rock anatomy of sunlight entering no. dedicate mi.t, an cmanafou
baTalt suo3rs softly with its bends and sweep- from tho blue sky, had fallen, and Jay .helUn.1 and
SrZmrunder it. ermine, is a crushed tremulous, a mild substitute for t o WsW
ing curves, lacoroa, w wsvercd and trembled into sunlight,
volcamc dome, or "J nd Ibcam. shot glimmering over snowy brinks, so
SfLffl-1 e be moS tZ lib constant avalanche, that I might douU wither
SJfS 'the cones, and morl of mas, dine Jrceand thU movement T.'Sfi
hardihood in the J k and iud of yellow, sulphurous v.,r, float
dome, are calmer and more dm nd, even .
they have faded to attain abwlule d.gn t"" D t ff , m fir,, bluj cter larnM
finish, and are riven and brok en ow they Ude- J M , lioM uoL
mand our sympathy for giant power, .f only iart ally unjr i ' ioIlllloy badcru.tl
victor. Each form-tbe dome ft. h'i 4
SKta Ti.:: enough with Internal life to War up in sm.U, pro-
the Cascades, " . wb it UoU . , , rui wu M douM a
known to ggrap y-t ejr summ U to o . U o
t ;n,t. o Titanic convulsion the g,n snow,
trails for Pacific railroad., have seen t e. , .umm.U bid from vww
A few myriad, of Oregonian. have no bn . jtato J J
libililycf human approach and human in,ui.i
influence, and have wntten, boast ng that bt mien. ,
or Hood are high a. Dta V Uo U - ,Q , ,,,;,