acl 
- ty here, to maar the high wee 
which rise with he morning,, and decli 
‘with the day. 
Accordingly, after an hour’s halt, we again 
embarked, and resumed our sere voyeue 
The wind ros 
among : e nae ya ch were in 
and interesting. About midnight we put to 
shore on a rocky beach, behind which 
was a dark-looking pine — We built up 
large 
masses round a arranging 
our blankets on t the most str places we 
could find, passed a delightfu 
After an early breakfast, at daylight we 
resu' eather being 
and still. 
marked 
Maca ee the 
with a series of 
n either side of the 
e. main ahaa of the Sacra- 
mento river, and the Tlamath, issue in cas- 
as great pillars of snow 
mize time by voyaging in the night, as ‘is | th 
oe | rocks, and boiling into a 
.| curre 
aes of broken w 
were carried through (a distance of about 
mile) to the bank below the main 
h 
water being white w 
pools. The boat passed with caus rapidity, 
crossing and recrossing in the eddies. of = 
er _— through about 
we ran some wild 
ooking rapids, Shah are called the Lower 
Rapids being the last on the river, which 
below i 3 
the right bank of the river, at the lower eud 
of these rapids, were ny tents of 
hi 
pr hie ons bers: we ae expected from Van- 
ver. e down the rails I 
had sintiaeit thelr pone Song es * zi 
tr Pole copie eir goods across the ite 
his portage makes ead 
ascending the river. 
in length ; 
miles of smooth 
Ve 
ee 
between very rocky an a 8 
i along the river valley at 
a little distance, covered ‘with forests of piney 
and s = cretemgget sid ecereens 
of red rock, Nearer, the shore is bordered 
apie escarped hills ee sabres vertical 
which th 
of cascades to the ais, from which the waters of | ne 
range ; name of Cas- | tain reach the river in a variety of beautiful 
“CADE Raxce, which it bears, and distin- fails, etimes seve: ndred feet im 
vn. | height. Occasionally the river occur- 
In mal making a short turn to ae south, the | red pretty bottoms, covered with the 
river forms the cascades in es in breaking over a | est verdure of the spring. To a profession- 
point of of rock, leay- | al farmer, however, it does no r many 
a handsome hay to Gaervi right, with seve- | places of sufficient extent to be val for 
rocky pine-covered islands, and the ture; and after passing a few miles 
ountains at i a | below the Dalles, [ had 
we passed a 
cascades, 
lated hill and'in the-course.of ri gey 
’ 
of pavigntion, : 
= 
