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Show as · THE JOURNEY OUT, ' very much aliker They are found immediately above th~ Fall~, and· as far up as the stillJ water extends; wh~ch lack of current in the River, we c~:msider to be the effect of some vast impediment, having he.en thrown into it, at the Cascade Falls. The Fallf:i ~eem to be pomposed of large detached masses o.f rocks; which ~ircumstance also ffl,vors our opinion. A short distance below the W ascopin Mission, ~nd the Rapids of the Great Dales, we found tqe first of these submerged stumps. They increas~ d in number, as we descended the River; ~s is always the ~ase wherever there h~s been an impediment, thrown into the chanpel of a stream, so as tq rai~e the water over its natural shores. ~mmediately above the Wascopin Mission, ~s we have before poticed, anq at lenst as far up as f,Fort Walawala, the River is full of Fall~ and R~pids, and such al~o we believe to have been the prigi~al character of the lliver below; where we fiqd, ~t the pres~ nt tlme, these stumps, &nd an eqtire lack of current; as this portion of it includes the breach thrqugh the Cascade Mountains, ~~~most r~gged country, perhaps, through which the Columbia flows. If these stqmps aQd trees, (for many of them are still sixty ~r seven~y feet abqve t?~ water in the River,) h~d been brought ~nto thetr. present pos1t1pn by land slide~, as Captain Fremont suggests, It seems to us, to be a matter of course, that th':! most ~f those which we~·e not throwh down by the mption, and agita~ wn, would have been found standing in various inclined positions; ~ut on .t4e conh:~ry,. we ~nd them nearly all staqding erect.And agam, whq.t 1s highly Improbable, the slides must all have peen very nearly simultaneous, as ths trees are all, about in the same st~te of pres.ervation. The most of them stand opposite where :we con~1dered the shore~ too gradual to admit of a ~!ide . ThQre flr.e m~ny ~&rge Qook~ m the Mountains~ ~long tqis part of the ~tver, Which ar~ SU1table for small settlements. Fifty mile~ below the Mission we came tq the Cascade Falls.Here the ~lVer, compressed into two thirds of its usual width pescendftl over huge rocks, several hundred Y~I·ds Wl. th . I' ' +' f b fi . ' an mc ma,. 1on. o ~ ou~ lve degrees; and from the head to the foot of th~ faflqsF, ~ dis~~nce of fo~~· ~iles, the water descends about fifty +ee . . rom t1fe great arrltatwn of th . )Vith such velocity, d~wn 't . ke w~er, caused by Its rushing ~iver,.for sever.al hundl'ed y~;dsi~~ ~ ~h~~nel, th~ sldurface of the On the South the d ·k '. 1 e &s a e of snow.. fi ' at basaltic walls, rising perpendicular! v f9H~ 9~ .. ve ~qqdred feet, are covered with p · 'rh • · , mes. ere are . ' • W..l 'l'H ITS INCIDENTS. ~m!,\H Islands of rock, qoth above and below the Falls; many of which 2;\re t~mbered, f,lnd huge volcanic fragments cover either .shore • . He;re we were obliged to leave our canoes, and carry ,our bl;lggage nearly four miles, over rocks, and hills, to th~ foot of the ~apids; where we found a b~teau, which had beeq brou.g 4t .~P _from the Fort, for the accommodation of the Emi. . ' grant$.~ . We saw, while passing down, on the North si~e of the nver, a la~ge Iq.<H~n burying place, where the QOnes of hundreqs were heaped togetij,er, in pens about eight f~et square, made of thin Gedar slaq:;;, ~,ewn anq set upon end in the E;)arth, covered with bark, and ornP,.m~nted ,with carved images of birds, bea~ts, skeletons of men .~nd imaginary monsters. Some of these pens had r_qtted down, anq the ~aked skeleton~ Jay scattered over the grouq.d. We foui)d iq. oqe, a body not yet decayed, wrapped in a blanket, and layiqg upoT). ~ poard shelf. The Falls afford one of ~l}e best Salmon fishet·ies in the Territo .. ry, and here the Indians tal~e , iq. the Spring, great quantities of fish. It t'}inf}d on us d~ring the night we were at the Falls, and, with ~ittle intermission, during our p&ssage to Vancouver. Belo~v the Falls on the South s,;ide, there is, for several miles, a perpendicular rock bluff, rising from the water five hundred feet; over which several small streams are pouring, in beautiful Cascades. The Columbia is broad and deep from the Falls to the Ocean, and the tide runs up to the foot of the Rapids, Twenty miles below the Pascades, the River makes a sudden bend, about a high Mountain point, called Cape Horn. Immediately on the point, there are _se~eral spires of solid r~ck, rising, pke huge horns, out of the water, from fifty to sixty feet high. Here we were met by a heavy gale of wind, an4 compelled to run ~shore, and remain until the pext day. This frequently happe~s to voyagers, on this part of ~he River. In one instance, a crew of Emigrants were under the pecessity of thro"}'ing part of their loading overboard, in or .. 4er to gain the shore. A few miles below Cape Horn, the pighlands on the South side, re·cede from the River, leaving wide, low bottoms ; which generally overflow in the Spring. This low land continues to widen, to the mouth of the Willammette, and extend~ up that River about eight miles. In this part of the Columbia, there are many low Islands. After a very disagreeable passage, we landed at Fort Vancouver, forty mges belq~ the Pasc~de Falls. It is situated on the North |