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verdure of the spring. Toa professional farmer, however, it does not offer 
any places of sufficient extent to be valuable for agriculture ; and after 
assing a few miles below the Dalles, I had scarcely seen a place on the 
south shore where wagons could get to the river. “The beauty of the 
scenery was heightened by the continuance of very delightful weather, re- 
sembling the Indian summer of the Atlantic. A few miles below the. cas- 
‘cades we passed a singular isolated hill; and in the course of the next six 
miles occurred five very pretty falls from the heights on the left bank, one 
of them being of a very picturesque character; and towards sunset we 
reached a remarkable point of rocks, distinguished, on account of prevailing 
high winds, and the delay it frequently occasions to the canoe navigation, 
y the name of Cape Horn. It borders the river in a high wall of rock, 
rhich comes boldly down into deep water ; and in violent gales down the 
appears to form a serious obstacle to canoe travelling ; and I was informed 
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darkness. Heavy clouds covered the sky this evening, and the win 
to sweep in gusts among the trees, as if bad weather were coming. As we 
advanced, the hills on both sides grew constantly lower; on the right, re- 
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tiver, the highlands on the left declined to the plains, and three or four miles 
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s, the opposite shores were so distant as to het ne indistinct in 
confer about the course ; and, after a li sitation, pulled directly across 
open expansion of the river, where es were somewhat rough for 
wind blowing very fresh. Much to our surprise ,a few min- 
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