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Title: Hittell's hand-book of Pacific Coast travel
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hittell, John S. (John Shertzer), 1825-1901 Hittell, John S. (John Shertzer), 1825-1901. Bancroft's Pacific Coast guide book
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Publisher: San Francisco : Bancroft Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s hundreds of others, most of them with less than asquare mile of area, and many very attractive to the tourist, fisher-man and artist. Generally they are at elevations of 4,000 feet ormore above the sea, and owe their existence to glaciers, which haveeither scooped hollows in the rocks or deposited moraines across thevalleys. From Tahoe northward to the Oregon line, the mountainlakes are most abundant. Some of them such as Goose Lake, HoneyLake and Eagle Lake are saline, having either no outlet or none at 188 THE SIERRA. their ordinary levels. Generally, however, their waters are pureand remarkably clear, abounding with fish, and surrounded bybeautiful shores. Webber Lake, north of the Central Pacific Rail-road, is a favorite resort for pleasure seekers; and Gold, Truckee, In-dependence, Eureka, Meadow, Medley, Glacier, Echo, Twin, Silverand Blue Lakes, though far inferior to Tahoe in size, variety ofattraction, and convenience of access, are all worthy of the atten-tion of tourists.
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CHAPTER VI. OREGON, WASHINGTON, ETC. Scope of Chapter.—In preceding chapters, some account has been given of the leading points of interest to tourists and Califor- i nia, Nevada and Utah ; and this chapter is to treat of similar points in Oregon and other portions of our slope, including Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, Alaska and Mexico. Columbia River.—No navigable river on our continent, andprobably, none anywhere, presents to the traveler who views itsbanks from a boat, a finer combination of grandeur, with beauty inits scenery, than the Columbia. The Hudson, Mississippi, St.Lawrence and Ohio, are each inferior to it in many importantrespects. _ The palisades of the Hudson and the hills of the Ohiosink into insignificance when compared with the cliffs and moun-tains of the great river of Oregon. Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, Mt.St. Helens, and Mt. Rainier, all visible from the Columbia, aremajestic features in the landscape. The average width of the -stream below the Cascades is

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