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while the many islands therein, draped in their 

 evergreen foliage, look like emeralds set in a sheet 

 of silver. Many prominent landmarks in British 

 Columbia are seen, while to the north and south 

 stretches the Cascade Kange, to the west the Olym- 

 pic, and to the southwest the Coast Range. All these 

 are spread out before the eye of the tourist in a 

 grand panorama unsurpassed for loveliness. Crater 

 Lake forms one of the mysteries of Mount Tacoma. 

 About its ragged, ice-bound and rock-ribbed shores 

 are many dark caverns, from which the Indians con- 

 ceived their superstitious fears of this mysterious 

 pile. An explorer says of one of these chambers: 



4 'Its roof is a dome of brilliant green, with long 

 icicles pendant therefrom; while its floor is com- 

 posed of the rocks and debris that formed the side 

 of the crater, worn smooth by the action of water 

 and heated by a natural register, from which issue 

 clouds of steam." 



The grand canon of the Puyallup is two and a half 

 miles wide, and from its head may be seen the great 

 glacier, 300 feet in thickness, which supplies the 

 .great volume of water that flows through the Pu- 

 yallap river. From here no less than nine different 

 waterfalls, varying in height from 500 to 1,500 feet, 

 are visible; and visitors are sometimes thrilled with 

 the magnificent spectacle of an avalanche of thou- 

 sands of tons of overhanging ice falling with an 

 overwhelming crash into the canon, roaring and 

 reverberating in a way that almost makes the great 

 mountain tremble. Fed by the lake, torrents pour 

 over the edge of the cliff, and the foaming waters, 

 forming a perpetual veil of seemingly silver lace. 



