'.'/// and Botany tf \ > . , /,//,.,/. 



Tcrtiarj which Sgares and description! will I.,. pnM>!,rd 



by tli. I . 8, (.coio-iral Survey. 



M"iu:i;\ (,i.\. [JJBS 01 i n i 8lBBH L 



From the Willamette Valley and ln ,,]. splendid 



view.- arc obtained of tin- . .,. 



ains, the Tluv. Mt. Jefferson, Mt. !(....,- 



lit St. Helens, Mt. Tacoma and M:. |: . . ( 



Hood has an altitudeof 11,225 feet, Mt. Adam- 1 .' . 



Tacoma 1 Llnii. I,, Colorado and California are a num!. 



summits of e<|iial absolute height, but they have not!. 



the relief above t heir surroundings that t!i . rarrv fa 



perpetual snow, and are in every way less imp: 



ton Territory, the permanent snow-line on the west side of the 



mountains is about 6,500 feet, on the Cittl Bide sever*] hundred 



feet hi-her. .Mt. Tacoma carries, therefore, about Sjinn f, , 



snow. Uclow this it is covered with a d. 



hills nowhere rise to the height of \?,niM f rr t above the sea. ami 



hence are invisible at a distance: so from many phuvs about the 



S mud. practically the whole of the moimtar 



view, a gigautic OOD6 14,000 feet in height, apparent Iv r: 



directly from t he sea-level ! Mt. Shasta has the .-anie alt :t mle. 



and as seen from Scott's or Strawberry Valley, i< wonderfullv 



impres.-ive: but it is situated further inland and further south, 



it.- base is higher and it has less .-now. and it is then foiv M 



what less imposing. Mt. Hood, a- seen under favorable circum- 



.-taiiccs from I-'ml Vanemivi-r, e-peeiall\ when retlected from the 



lake-like surface of the Columbia, is as hcautiful but 



L r rand. It is not too much to sa\ then, that i thei mountain 



on this continent, and none in Kurope. r;\a!s in irrainleiir . 

 beauty Mi. Tae.inia : and it is doubtful whether in the world 

 then? is any that produc.- iter impres>ion upon the 



hole 



Though appearing in t he list am -e so syninietr HUM it h. 



Mt. Tacoma ha- been found to ;>ound mass 



j: of three eonspieiious -iimniits. and m . 

 peak-, with prccij 



iiieh make tin- a.-ccnt ditlieull II 



