Our Noblest Volcano 



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I recall one where the family occupied 

 the top floor, the proprietor conducting 

 a general store on the level of the bridge 

 connecting him with the mainland, and 

 carrying on an extensive business in the 

 purchase and shipment of fish and game 

 at the water-level underneath. 



While somewhat similar lodges were 

 found by the Raleigh voyagers to our 

 shores in 1585, as is shown by John 

 White's water-color drawings in the 

 Grenville Collection in the British Mu- 

 seum, the circumstances seem to warrant 

 the belief that these are atavisms rather 

 than survivals. It is not so, however, in 

 the case of the palmetto shacks of the 

 Florida coast, which are clearly imitations 

 of the homes of the Seminole Indians in 

 their immediate proximity. These Indian 

 lodges are furnished with a floor raised 

 just high enough above the ground to 

 admit the ever-present hog with his com- 

 munity of fleas. The lodge is rarely oc- 

 cupied except at night, and the platform 

 is in realitv a bed rather than a floor. 



The driven rain is usually kept out by 

 mats and blankets hung around the walls. 



Thus we see that men, however far 

 removed from one another in time and 

 space, instinctively meet similar condi- 

 tions in essentially the same way. The 

 shepherds who occupied the Palatine Hill 

 in 753 B. C. built very much as the North 

 Carolina Islanders do today ; and Italian 

 peasants of the present time build in the 

 Pontine marshes or in the Agro Romano, 

 when they come down from the moun- 

 tains for the cultivation of their maize 

 fields, houses essentially like those of the 

 days of Romulus and Remus. 



The prototype of these prehistoric con- 

 temporary settlements is the village con- 

 structed every autumn on the now 

 drained lake of Gabii, at the twelfth mile- 

 stone on the Via Praenestina, and in- 

 habited by a half-savage tribe of two 

 hundred mountaineers. The natives of 

 New Guinea, the huntsmen of Borneo, 

 and the fishermen on the Volga construct 

 huts of essentially the same type. 



IS OUR NOBLEST VOLCANO 



TO NEW LIFE 



AWAKENING 



A Description of the Glaciers and Evidences of Vol- 

 canic Activity of Mount Hood 



By A. H. Sylvester 

 United States Geological Survey 



THE early immigrant to Oregon, 

 while yet on the eastern sage- 

 brush plains, if the day was 

 clear, saw a great white mountain, 

 like a specter, beckoning him ever 

 westward. The sailors of an English 

 exploring ship beheld, day after day, 

 from the Pacific Ocean, the same great 

 mountain, standing white and alone, high 

 above the forest-clad hills that stretched 

 to north and south. They gave to it the 

 name of an admiral of their navy, and 



never has a man's memory been perpetu- 

 ated by grander and more beautiful mon- 

 ument. 



The Indians of Oregon venerated the 

 great mountain and worshipped the 

 spirit that dwelt therein. The immigrants 

 soon gave to it a love as strong as the 

 native's veneration ; and justly, for over 

 every one who comes within its dominion 

 it casts the spell of its enchantment. 



Having seen Mount Hood at various 

 distances and from various directions, for 



