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interesting sights on the line of the Northern Pacific 

 road. There are over a dozen distinct falls within a 

 half a mile, one of which is over sixty feet in per- 

 pendicular height. Several of these falls are split 

 into various channels by small islands or pillars of 

 basaltic rock. At one place, where two of these 

 channels unite in a common plunge into a small 

 pool, the water is thrown up in a beautiful, shell- 

 like cone of white foam, to a height of nearly six 

 feet. It is estimated by competent engineers that 

 the river at this point furnishes a water-power equal 

 in the aggregate to that of the Mississippi at St. 

 Anthony' s Falls. Every passenger over this route 

 should certainly stop off and spend a few hours 

 viewing the falls of the Spokane river. 



