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pages 374-375

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_026hs http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,832
Title pages 374-375
Relation Down The Columbia
Date 2004-08-24
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description within eye-scope, a sudden shifting of the clouds uncovered in quick succession three wonderful old volcanic cones—Hood, to the south, Adams, to the north, and a peak which I think must have been St. Helens to the west. Instantly the lines of Tennyson's Lotos Eaters came to my mind. "A land of streams ! some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go ; And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the...

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