STEEP TRAILS 



fifty-fourth parallel, and is the northmost of 

 all the Columbia waters. About thirty miles 

 above its confluence with the Columbia it 

 flows through a lake called the Punch-Bowl, 

 and thence it passes between Mounts Hooker 

 and Brown, said to be fifteen thousand and 

 sixteen thousand feet high, making magnifi- 

 cent scenery; though the height of the moun- 

 tains thereabouts has been considerably over- 

 estimated. From Boat Encampment the river, 

 now a large, clear stream, said to be nearly 

 a third of a mile in width, doubles back on its 

 original course and flows southward as far 

 as its confluence with the Spokane hi Wash- 

 ington, a distance of nearly three hundred 

 miles in a direct line, most of the way through 

 a wild, rocky, picturesque mass of mountains, 

 charmingly forested with pine and spruce 

 though the trees seem strangely small, like 

 second growth saplings, to one familiar with 

 the western forests of Washington, Oregon, 

 and California. 



About forty-five miles below Boat Encamp- 

 ment are the Upper Dalles, or Dalles de Mort, 

 and thirty miles farther the Lower Dalles, 

 where the river makes a magnificent uproar 

 and interrupts navigation. About thirty miles 

 below the Lower Dalles the river expands into 

 Upper Arrow Lake, a beautiful sheet of water 



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