CHAPTER II. 



- succeeding autumn, for years past, 

 has found me in some range of mount- 

 ains, camping, hunting, fishing, 

 > - >\ climbing, and taking views. The 

 benefits I have derived from these 

 expeditions, in the way of health, 

 'strength, and vigor, are incalculable, 

 land the pleasures inexpressible. My last 

 outing was in the Cascade Range, in Oregon 

 land Washington Territory, where I spent 

 Ta month in these delightful occupations, and it 

 is with a view of encouraging and promoting a love 

 for these modes of recreation that this record is 

 written. 



"I live not in myself, but I become 



Portion of that around me; and to me 

 High mountains are a feeling, but the hum 

 Of human cities torture." 



The Cascade Range of mountains extends from 

 Southern Oregon through Washington Territory, 

 away to the northward in British Columbia. In width, 

 from east to west, it varies from fifty to one hundred 

 miles. It is the most densely-timbered range on the 

 continent, and yet is one of the highest and most rug- 

 ged. It may not possess so many ragged, shapeless 

 crags and dark canons as the Rocky Range, and yet 

 everyone who has ever traversed both accords to the 



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