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Show AJHHIV; jlOL'NTU. STKAOb TBAVIXS ot A HIGH 1 l-K IN Till CASCADE". A traveling mo Jutaln is found at the cascades of the Columbia, says the Atiortcn of Oregon It is a triple-peaked mass ot dark brown basalt, six or eight miles In length where it fronts the river, and rises to a height of almost t1Xl feet aliov e the water. That it is iu mutton is thu last thought which would be likclj to suggest Iw-ejf. to the mind of ani ens passing it, yet it laa weli-vsUb-lished fact that Uii entire mountain moun-tain is moving sowiy butetcadi!) down the river as if it bad i deliberate de-liberate purpoe some time in the future to dam the Columbia and form a great lake from the cascades to the Dalies. The Indian traditions Indicate Immense movements of the mountains hereabouts long before white men came to Oregon, and the earli -ctUer-, immlrants many of tb-m from 5ew I ngland, gave the above-described mountainous ridge thcnimcof traveling" or sliding mountain." In its fWail an J downward awttmcat the forests along the base of the ridge have become submerged sub-merged in the river Large tree stills can be seen stanlin? lUnin the water ou this shore. The rail way engineers aud the brakenien find that the lino of the rallroaj which skirts the footof themoun-tain themoun-tain is beiug continually forced cut of place At certain joints uie roadbed and rails sa been pushed eight or ten fett out of line In a feir yeire Geologists attrioute this stramre pHenomen"h IS Hi- f'cl 'hr-t -the ba-alt which constitu es the buUof the mountain, rests on substratum of conglomerate, or of soft sandstone, sand-stone, which Uie deep, swift current of the mighti fler is constantly wearing aw ay, or that this softer SUb rock lS Of Itself Vieldlll.ntr.( depths to Uie enormous weight of the harder material above |