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Cascades and The Dalles, was more than 

 twenty feet lower than it is today. 



A strong confirmation of these facts and 

 conclusions may be found in the United States 

 Railroad Survey, Vol. 6, where Dr. Newbury 

 writes as follows: "The river from The Dalles 

 to the Cascades is very deep, has an impercep- 

 tible current and has rather the appearance 

 of an elongated lake than of a flowing stream." 

 Surely this looks a little like a damming up of 

 the waters, but Dr. Newbury continues: "At 

 intervals over the entire distance from the 

 point where we entered the mountains to the 

 Cascades, the river is bordered on either side 

 by the erect but partially decayed stumps of 

 trees, which project in considerable numbers 

 from the surface of the water. This has been 

 termed the 'Sunken Forest' and has been gen- 

 erally attributed to slides from the sides of 

 the mountains which have carried down into 

 the bed of the stream the standing trees. This 

 phenomenon however, is dependent on a dif- 

 ferent cause. As I have mentioned, the vicin- 

 itv of the falls has been the scene of recent 



