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16_84 Columbia River "Eastern" tenderfoot and make sport of him; the train still delays; the heat is quivering, the eye meets the sand and gary clumps of the far stretching sage-brush. Passes the Columbia River, an imposing stream 1/2 to 1/4 mile wide but backed by a desolate country. Yakima River we now follow. Some small towns a little less desolate than Pasco. Then Yakima city and aobut it a luxuriant and prosperous valley; quite a beautiful spot - an orchard it is - with the heat at 110 deg. Dust and heat all the way. Next we are in a rocky ca_on and there appear |
16_85 July 30, 1906. Cottonwoods and Yellow Pines - the first I have noticed. Kittitas Basin - fertile plateau, the farming plain enriched and diversified with groves or clumps of trees. Ellensburg in the centre of it. Then the summit. What a contrast to Pasco is the wetern slope of the Cascades! Had I forgotton what the deeply forested mts. of western America looked like! The top and sides densely clothed with unending ranks of pointed conifers? Seattle. Early next moringing corssed the Columbia River. |
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