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Knox's, Peterson's and Ward's, One stand- 

 ing on the summit of either of these buttes, 

 with the suggestions of these pages before 

 him, could so easily and vividly imagine those 

 waters recalled, as to almost persuade himself 

 he heard the murmuring of their ripples at his 

 feet so sea like, the extended plain around 

 him so shore like that line of hills winding 

 from Mary's peak, on the west, to Spencer's 

 butte, on the south, and only lost on the east 

 among the foot hills of the Cascades. How 

 natural would seem to him this restoration 

 of one of geology's yesterdays! 



The shores of that fine old Willamette 

 sound teemed with the life of the period. It 

 is marvelous that so few excavations in the 

 Willamette valley have failed to uncover some 

 of these relics of the past. Bones, teeth and 

 tusks, proving a wide range of animal life, 

 are often found in ditches, mill races, crumb- 

 ling cliffs and other exposures of the sedi- 

 ments of these waters, and often within a few 

 feet of the surface. Did man, too, live there 

 then? We need not point out the evidences 



