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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railroad guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation : and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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hers had passed up and down beneath the arch in theircanoes, and the stream was navigable ; but, when the archfell, it choked the river, and created the rapids that nowexist. The legend goes on to say that the SahullahTyhee, or Great Spirit, was so angry with the contendingmountains that He hurled them north and south, where theystand to-day. This legend has some foundation, judging from the presentconditions. It is evident, from the state of the shores and thesubmersion of forests, that some great convulsion has occurredand thrown down the rocky walls adjoining the river. Justabove the Cascades the view includes bea:itiful islands, not farfrom the brink of the rapids; and between the islands andthe rapids some ancient forest has been submerged, with thetree trunks still standing beneath the waves. It is commonlyknown to river men and steamboat men that this submergedforest stands there, and it is often pointed out to travelers.How long since it grew on the shore, no one knows. Indian
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Multnom.h Falls. Columbia River.391 ^^^2 2Vie Northern Pacific Railroad. legends are never accurate, and we can oi\Iy surmise thatit was long centuries before the white man came. In connection with this legend, there are scientific data toestablish the fact that some great convulsion has taken placeand blocked the stream. When the rock walls fell and chokedthe channel, the effect was to raise the waters and deadenthe flow for eight miles above. The work of engineers whohave built and superintended the railways constructed aroundthe Cascades for twenty years back, has demonstrated that,for a distance of three miles on the south, a great spur of themountains is moving toward the river. The engineers whomade the examinations connected with the canal and locks thatgovernment is now constructing around the Cascades, havedetermined that the impending mountain of basalt rests on abed of conglomerate, with a substratum of sandstone, pitchingtoward the river. As the river wears away under the

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