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16_94 Portland to Ashland, Oregon (alt = 1867 ft.) MacMillan's leaving. The publication etc. funds at Minnesota came from the geological and Natural History Survey which is rich, it having been given lands long ago supposed to be worthless but which developed minerals, iron, salt, etc. When I woke up this a.m. we were traveling through mountainous densely timbered country. About Grant's Pass the aspect is much like the north Coast Ranges: there is Quercus Garryana, Madrona, Quercus Californica, Douglas Spruce, and very early this morning I saw firs. Yellow Pines were also noted. |
16_95 July 31 - Aug. 1, 1906. Ashland is set low on Rogue River and the rising foothills with a magnificent sweeping circle of mountains about it. Here I first see a landscape that suggests California's best: the gold-brown fields of the hills, enamelled with bunches and loosely strung clusters of darkgreen trees, the patches of white-brown contrasting sharply with the purple hills and the flood of white sunshine illuminating it all - and it is the same sun that shines on London!! Went in to Ashland Butte with Mr. Carter and Mr. Kopke to find weeping Spruce. Kopke took us to |
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