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THROUGH WONDERLAND. 
Portland boat at Astoria, where passengers are transferred without inconvenience 
or delay. They call, both going and returning, at Cape Hancock, affording 
tourists an opportunity of visiting Fort Canby, and the great light-house, from 
which there is one of the most extensive and magnificent views on the entire 
Pacific coast. On the Oregon shore of the ocean are Clatsop Beach, where 
there are good hotel accommodations and excellent hunting and fishing, and a 
popular resort known as Seaside, boasting a multitude of attractions, including 
a fine ocean beach and a trout creek. Should the tourist be unable to make 
a long stay at any of these places, he ought at least to pay them a brief visit, 
if only to cross the great bar of the river, and to see where its mighty flood 
discharges itself into the ocean at the rate of 1,000,000 gallons per second. 
The climate of this section is exceedingly humid; but its summers are 
delightful. Its rainfall is mostly in winter, when it is both heavy and con¬ 
tinuous. It is said, that, if a barrel, with the two ends taken out, be placed 
upon its side with the bung-hole uppermost, the rain will enter by that small 
aperture faster than it can run out at the two ends. For this story, however, 
the writer can not vouch, any more than for that of the recent visitor to the 
National Park, who is said to have caught, in one of the lakes of that remark¬ 
able region, a fish so large that, upon his dragging it ashore, the water of the 
lake fell six inches. 
TO PUGET SOUND. 
The tourist has now become more or less familiar with the natural features 
and resources of that great country lying between the Snake river and the 
Pacific Ocean, and between the Columbia river and the Siskiyou Mountains. 
There remains only Western Washington, with its extensive forests, its rich 
coal mines, its hop gardens, and its far-famed inland sea, on which he is to 
embark on his voyage to the great land of the far North. The Pacific division 
of the Northern Pacific Railroad follows the Willamette river from Portland to 
its confluence with the Columbia, and the latter river from that point to 
Kalama, where trains are conveyed across the river by the finest transfer boat 
in the world, built expressly for the railroad company, and constructed to carry 
thirty cars at one time. From Kalama the track strikes almost directly north¬ 
ward for Puget Sound, passing through long stretches of dense forest, but also 
intersecting a tract of country containing a larger area of fertile agricultural 
land than is contained in any other county in Western Washington. 
The chief towns of this region are Chehalis and Centralia, and they give 
evidence of thrift and prosperity. But the attention of the tourist as he 
travels onward is largely occupied with the magnificent peaks of the Cascade 
Range, whose forms of dazzling whiteness constitute, with their background of 
deepest blue and the dark forests which clothe their base, a picture of marvelous 
beauty. For more than one hundred miles after we leave Portland, there 
looms up behind us the graceful contour of Mount Hood, while to the east ate 
seen at intervals the majestic forms of Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams. 
But the grandest scene of all is yet to come. After leaving Tenino, there 
