Identifier: beautiesofstateo00gile (find matches)
Title: The Beauties of the state of Washington : a book for tourists
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Giles, Harry F Washington (State). Bureau of Statistics and Immigration
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Publisher: Olympia : F.M. Lamborn, Public Printer
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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tend to make the travelerdissatisfied with his own home. At times is visible a beautiful waterfall, a palisade of won-derful basalt, and occasionally some island draped with verdureof many tints. Further away a murmuring brook or crystalstreamlet may be heard hurrying down a rocky hillside or wind-ing between towering cliffs, adding its share to the tunefulsound of the powerful orchestra that seems everywhere to beheard. Constantly shifting color and shade attract the eye andtones of varying quality please the ear. When the mouth of the Cowlitz is neared there appear,stretching toward the north, broad areas where man has mingledhis skill with Natures works. Green fields, sometimes fringedwith willows, near the waterfront, and dotted with orchards, farmhouses, and dairies, are visible as far as the eye can see.These evidences of mans encroachments are noted all theway to Vancouver (and beyond), at which city, the oldest inthe state, a tourist should linger long enough to appreciate the
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THE SALMON FISHING INDUSTRY. State of Washington 59 region which arrested the attention of our earliest settlers andinspired the beginning of the first city in Washington. Abridge, costing nearly two million dollars, will soon connect itwith the beautiful city of Portland. Cultivated lands are seen on either side as the river isascended, until the mountainous region is reached and the roarof the cascades is distinctly heard. These cascades, ac-cording to Indian lore, were created by the falling of theBridge of the Gods, which once extended from shore to shoreand formed the great highway connecting the mountains onthe north and their extension to the south, while beneath amighty river peacefully pursued its course to the sea. The per-pendicular buttresses on either hand, the forest areas thatapparently fell from above, trees growing out of the water,petrified logs up in the reddish cliffs within the vicinity of Stev-enson, and many other freaks of nature all seem to strengthenthe evide

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