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cliffs and towering mountain peaks of the Cascade 

 Range. Again the little camera came into requisi- 

 tion, and though the day was cloudy and blusterous, 

 though snow fell at frequent intervals, and though 

 the steamer trembled like a reed shaken by the wind, 

 I made a dozen or more exposures on the most inter- 

 esting and beautiful subjects as we passed them, and 

 to my surprise many came out good pictures. Most 

 of them lack detail in the deeper shadows, but the 

 results altogether show that had the day been clear 

 and bright all would have been perfect. In short, it 

 is possible with this dry-plate process to make good 

 pictures from a moving steamboat, or even from a 

 railway train going at a high rate of speed. I made 

 three pictures from a Northern Pacific train, coming 

 through the Bad Lands, when running twenty-five 

 miles an hour, and though slightly blurred in the 

 near foreground, the buttes and bluffs, a hundred 

 yards and further away, are as sharp as if I had been 

 standing on the ground and the camera on a tripod; 

 and a snap shot at a prairie-dog town just as the 

 train slowed on a heavy grade shows several of the 

 little rodents in various poses, some of them appar- 

 ently trying to look pretty while having their " pict- 

 ures took." 



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