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one is possessed after passing some trying 

 ordeal. And so it seems in this case with 

 the watery elements, as they go quietly 

 along, some with gentle murmurs, while 

 others are singing merrily their song of tri- 

 umph to their companions, happily greeting 

 their neighbors, the forest and hills, passing 

 on to the great, broad bosom of Puget 

 sound. Here they are promoted to the 

 rank of their companions and the color of 

 the uniform given them under the glacier, 

 when they were sent forth into the sun- 

 light, changed from a milky, muddy color 

 to that of the standard blue of the grandest 

 inland sea of the world, Puget sound, where 

 they lose their identity among a great 

 company of troopers like unto themselves. 

 As you see them leaving the shores of the 

 sound on a peaceful, quiet afternoon in the 

 summer, you would scarcely think any of 

 them had ever engaged in a fierce conflict 

 ;in their effort to reach their home. 



Referring back to the grand canyon and 

 the turmoil of the waters to get through it, 

 in my opinion this deep, narrow channel 

 that appears so much like a crack or crevice 

 in the rocks was not there at one time but 

 has been cut into the solid rock by the run- 



ning water. It is said the constant dripping 

 of water will wear away a stone, and in the 

 same way will the constant running of water 

 cut a channel in the hardest of rock, as it 

 has done in this case. The nature of the 

 formation also aids one in reaching this con- 

 clusion. The rock is dark in color, some- 

 what hard in formation and has seams run- 

 ning through it which are hard as flint. In 

 the softer portions on the side of the per- 

 pendicular walls could be seen many semi- 

 circular cavities worn by the whirling mo- 

 tion of the water in its wild plunge through 

 the rapids and over the falls and cascades. 



I might continue indefinitely, so numerous 

 are the interesting things to be found there. 



Deer and black bear are numerous in this 

 vicinity, and many of the tributary streams 

 abound with fine mountain trout. 



Should some of the marty readers of 

 Recreation desire to spend a week among 

 the finest of mountain scenery I am sure 

 they will feel well repaid if they choose some 

 shady nook by the side of a babbling brook 

 in the vicinity of Mount Tacoma. There 

 are hundreds of interesting points and as 

 many lakes and streams full of the gamy 

 mountain trout. 



AN ALASKAN MOOSE HEAD. 

 Owned by Doll Dewees, Canon City, Col. Mounted by Prof. G. Stainsky, Colorado Springs, Col. 



