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RAISINS 



Mount Tacoma by those of Tacoma. It is 

 situated in Mount Rainier National Park. 

 The mountain, which is one of the noteworthy 

 sight-seeing places of the Northwest, is i 

 by automobile and stage lines, but the last part 

 of the road is not always open to traffic. 

 Trails leading to it wind through splendid fir 

 and cedar forests, past mountain torrents, and 

 among patches of scarlet heather and white 



MOUNT RAINIER 

 Fog is seen hanging below the mountain top. 



glacier lilies. The peak itself is 14,408 feet 

 above sea level, but travelers usually ascend 

 to the end of the timber line, a height of about 

 9,000 feet, by way of lesser peaks. At this 

 point on the south side of the peak are hotel 

 accommodations, and there such unique pas- 

 times as summer snowballing and coasting may 

 be enjoyed. 



From that point the ascent of the peak itself 

 is made, a trip which can be accomplished 

 within two days. The climb is a steep and 

 dangerous one, and should be made only with 

 skilled guides. The way is beset with blind 

 crevasses, steep ice precipices and crumbling 

 lava beds. Nisqually Glacier, which is part of 

 one of the largest glacier systems in the world, 

 lies at the foot of the mountain. 



RAINY LAKE, a picturesque lake lying on 

 the boundary between Ontario and Minnesota. 

 Its southern end is about 125 miles north of 

 Duluth, Minn., and about 150 miles west of the 

 shore of Lake Superior. The lake is shaped 

 roughly like a capital L,-each arm being ap- 

 proximately forty miles long and from three to 

 eight miles wide. Its surface, though covering 

 an area of more than 300 square miles, is so 

 broken by hundreds of islands that the largest 

 stretch of open water is hardly more than a 

 mile wide. The shores are rocky and are lined 

 with spruce, pine and other cone bearers, which 

 are being cut to supply the mills of Fort Fran- 

 cis, Ont., and other towns on the lake. The 

 Canadian Northern Railway crosses the lake 

 almost at its center. Fish are plentiful, espe- 

 cially pike and pickerel, but whitefish is the 

 only variety of commercial importance. The 



Rainy Lake region is noted not only for fish- 

 ing, but also for bears, moose and other wild 

 game. The surplus waters of the lake are car- 

 ried by the Rainy River westward to the Lake 

 of the Woods. 



RAISIN RIVER, MASSACRE OF, an atrocious 

 deed committed at Frenchtown (now Monroe, 

 Mich.) in January, 1813, during the War of 

 1812. A detachment of Kentucky troops, that 

 had been sent to drive the British from French- 

 town, on the Raisin River, were captured by 

 Proctor, who had advanced from Canada with 

 a body of 1,500 British and Indians. After 

 the battle, Proctor returned to Fort Maiden 

 with the able-bodied American prisoners, leav- 

 ing in the town all the wounded. As soon as 

 the British left, the Indians massacred the pris- 

 oners. "Remember the River Raisin" was long 

 aftenvards used as a battle cry by American 

 troops. 



RAISINS, ra'z'nz, the name given to dried 

 grapes, which have been a table luxury for 

 many hundred years. They have always been 

 produced in large quantities in the countries 

 around the Mediterranean Sea, the finest table 



GRAPES AND RAISINS 



and cluster raisins formerly coming from Spain, 

 and the small seedless, yellow raisins from the 

 vicinity of Smyrna, in Turkey. In the Middle 

 Ages large quantities of raisins were imported 

 from Spain into England, where they were re- 

 garded as a great delicacy. To-day California 

 furnishes raisins of as fine quality as any other 

 section of the world; it produces a sufficient 

 quantity for the entire country and for Canada. 

 Spain can send no finer cluster raisins than the 

 Malagas and Muscatels of California, and 

 Smyrna can produce no sweeter Sultanas. 



California raisins began to be important in 

 1874. In that year 9,000 boxes, or about 180,000 



