Show 11 aig ACCENT OP OF MOUNTAINS THE I 1 PACIFIC c aasc rw OF vl MOUT boit S ll 11 HASTA asak on the lath or of augusta aagaat it persons made a w ae 1 ss fal ful attempt a t t pt to relish ithe summit of mount shasta situated i tu a on in 1 the t I 1 ie extrum e part of california C ah ornia and 1 the q peak oed Fili in nat eliat stata st ite its ais elevation eleya tion being about feet above the leel odthe sea the region rt gin par snows one daj mhd party tl mr E D fierce ff teak ff U ifera at with vilh of the trip they hey skirted stir ted di in it the a ashot hot land 1 l h dinv inv t c P jowh jo where wh ore gy ihal ad great fly 0 66 from m J r breezing ree zing r A after far a passage of bome seven 16 if ilav loov hi and hididd ice over oer rocs docs and five to feet ili ift depth they discovered discover od three in diio DF tella on iia ta t iio 4 af F i moun tehi at an a V elevation ablo af thousand sand feet ai ascending abc ending tho the mat gravid peak found the getting too ligel h gh I 1 11 l taft aHsing tf spitting blood headache 1 and l being ob ligett dorest to rest every few feet ofir aas ays 1 I la ia fact bonef the party mader mo m motions o lions to go j no further bonef one of our party lost last ilia his breath once nd and with difficulty regained galiled ie it after many I 1 a struggle straggle we all reached flie heights ot of mount sha shasta pta a at half am which we found to bo be in fit the shape of a mamy mammoth poth stack of chimneys with barely adom for our our party to stand upon not theten of a bady ady waiter enn can over ever g give ive you the he most moat distant idea ft mhd ali grandeur and I 1 ab sublimity limity of the face of nature as 1 far as the eye could reach imagine for yourself mountains i is I 1 rising back of mount mountains gIna large and small in ili the most beautiful diso disorder roey and alid confusion interspersed with beautiful luxuriant valleys all well watered with fine streams here and alive ccrystal take lake or poud and andam andall all athis bocim angly encircled by bythe the coast range ike unto a mammuth abr corral adl all AH this and much janoe i could i he be scanned atif glance after a few necessary essary i preliminaries precisely at clock we unfolded the stars stairs and stripes Strip pil and raised ra sed the standard to its long resting 9 p place lied amid amialee ami alfe deafening n cheers of the little mediately tra after we commenced the adt a hundred yards west of the summit we found a cluster of boiling 1 hots hot sulphur springs alzea ozen in number I 1 steam smoke ga i the some fifty yards around we I 1 1 ably settled and completely covered I 1 with th t alp sulphur pr andine arlia an dIhe tha rocks are hot enough to t a in in ave minutes t theearta the earth has thi the g of j b being a mer mera mercell e ell 11 and mighty thin aalph UW I 1 descending 1 riding some t two mils miles w we ca came me to a oft rno ra ana j hurry to got clear of the smell amell of brimstone we I 1 1 set bailin the manner The Tho grade I being ian an aa ano q v gf some 75 74 degrees prees and the top of the so I 1 soy awe sat ourselves down fet foremost to regulate our speed and our walking sticky jor for rudders AA tile word off we sped 0 of I 1 F I 1 40 and th the lik ake a I 1 never pa saw W before e boasting unshipped their efro was a as 9 atop I 1 pg ame to gna and ant most apak dij faces faces while others too eager ager to ho e first awu 40 too nuch steanus nud and went jaad pl over ewo i wile while others found themselves at athwart kwart hw art ship bind a wa making revolutions pep giue yi ue p f As n at it wag a spirit spirited pd rw ram asfar afar as 1 it I I 1 w ee alid that was not far fo r in a triam briw we gaid F 11 V g cuttle palo attal ap COO t aw cje breath after a hitje we 6 fo unda iala same yere were min jis some apo dk ota some som e milts and others had shius shins isad and other little et esteras 1 etwas I suppose ej 4 by all that wow oye bat t peer over five 6 ve minutes ates aua and a half mata iker four alps I 1 ended th incidents inci jents of th the flay aday and a eriv d lia the camp IB 1 I OP MOUNT HOOD 1 the ahe editor edi tor of the eves la ill hs his paper an the of mount fload by himself and SL party sparty of i Nj i lemen emell indr tho th gili guidance dance of capt barlow yi old did I 1 F adapt hood heretofore re is situated ag latitude 44 0 dag 30 min lona q ave ve hu hundred uda miles from mount shasta in fc territory jy y of fo oregon regon this ja la 18 bol ey 11 I 1 all I 1 Q beigh ei gh boan tie tb level of tho aho abai aaa the ithe alty ork oa the ath of august I 1 att A tt three 41 aso f ain travel on t the lie second day aug va th they suddenly y emerged into an op p vi ared 1 I th grass and aad two hours bours 1 nope brought them to the ill s snow now lying in fit fields ou on eig e hac side here they encamped dortho for tha night Q the morning of tho ath blac donds began to ater aro abroad iid the affie base of the tain far belevy belo v wai th 0 it soon cornman commenced ced to thunder and tighten lighten ablit he wind to blow a severe gate gale frow from if the I 1 a west arttie party retreated three mitoe d down own tho the and encamped in a deep i canon or kacyon as pronounced in spanish 0 on a the hyning of oe tile the ath jhb party again sat out oat pro v beil with well maje made creepers iron socket tai i staffs afflic hooks ropes ae if we continued to asand 11 says our narrator 11 fur for several thousand thou fed ai at an angle of almost fifty degrees whon when the rained atmosphere began to exhibit its effects a up p n all 1 spon soon major H could d go no farther in co sequence ce of a diz dizziness la in the head which I 1 him borlo seriously sly after a while captain T fluid the he brood starting starling from the sur surface fia and was ala afo a attacked wih 0 a like dizziness diz when he prudently dently declined aping farther after a few faw rods furterer ti ap judge olney was reluctantly comi belld to halt in in consequence af the agular 1 inan i lar effle effect I 1 of the gir air upon him grom from this point we wen compelled to edke steps stepa 1 1 by kicking ue tile toes of oe air boots sevell times into lu dixe snow allow our oui who wha had now a good pair of creepers vaid andl a boid mountain ln staff seemed i determined to go as I 1 fu adi api pa as the 11 bosto bost i isa s could although he be could 1 not 0 cle I 1 ie indue induced eq tha way pr aveno go be iny iveli e i us foi fo parly vo va hours here ra was no thing said a an a i occasional hordof of warning wanting f ornus omus to mr lake biake to 11 close ip manage aringe aud the thea of jall jail alit I 1 11 go ahead VI dejl dwelli cofelt co come melt it Fi finally lally at 2 I 1 14 pm we attained the on oil tile the southeast side aide we found tho the top extremely narrow arrow ii laying in a crescent cresce itt shape th the a mail main I 1 n ride fridae a I 1 is formed of decomposed volcanic dia di a 6 i j i ri les a ones 10 ev umro za f bwy ir ir ying crying from the size of a common water t doni do it to two or thieo inches jn d diameter dj ameter I 1 which and through the I 1 ece crevices vices in the rock atheni ii constantly escaping hot smoke or gas of a strong odor of the temperature of oe boiling heat W we evodia saie 8 idao in 0 o them hem wid and I 1 could hear them des descend cpr a considerable distance wo we about one h ur traversing ug the bilge and ex examining I 1 I 1 amill 11 agthe the coit v in id the dis distance taace we could d I 1 y sea so mounts jefferson three s M c augh I 1 it st helens helena rainier and adams b boe s des t two v 0 oher snow peaks whose naf na irtes iries ir if t he hey hoie have any vib we are r unacquainted I 1 I 1 will wh also fremonte Fremon Fr emonts td peak and shasta t butte mountain edun tl ain in i 11 ll dali california fornia five fifa li hundred undred ws nals distant from mount hood 1 the vast extent of country over which the eye a ye re reach oi would he be received as in incredible redl ble by arty icv lint ands who have boon been upon toweling g mountains on oil a cleir da daj and in an oregon n at mo sphie there appeared t oae a ba k of fog to hanging over the 0 ocean which precluded us from seeing i it di distinctly s ly there was als also a dai daik k cond or oi b ank of i moke lying off the northeast vey very ve y lowdown shut out puta a small portion of the bounty in that hat direction from froin our view view W aside fr from bm tills this the ahr whelp le co county count y for hundreds of df miles was waar ii ia plain view before us in ill the distan distance 66 on oil either side could be trac traced d tho different ranges of QI ki known ioAn great rang mount mounta dins his 1 tog ahi r with the ae thousand smaller ranges wih wi h their innumerable crests and ives ent to the oe eye a perfect forest fore forestor of mountains ns ve vegetation ceas lis es to exist about oliree willet frodi th s summit the colic conclusion J is is irresistible sis tible that this riega wag has bean raised mar many py thousands 1 y soa some caan caln cohues dis on bli braat of nature I thell il ifju ha arof r of ali hie a day bogeff together ae I 1 r with wiltho wit tho visible apha of col coil I 1 corded forded fo ced us to retrace mpr steps t e much softer illian than w we des deg red rd I 1 descent wa a much more rapid than on our r ascent wiltho although lih i coition 0 artion of the way pore more 1 I 3 s dangerous while ori OA the td top lop 6 vaia 1111 i momi t alit 1 we nvere were I 1 startled by ii a fia oia er i st lg I 1 I 1 ill WP below belott alfirst Alfir at first sl wo we anUci ate pl it it 0 o eadi elou earah I 1 quick cizike e ril something of t thit I 1 I 1 it sort jud judge go oky oey al nm d those belo heard lit it also il and accounted tor pr it on our it was caused by an all avalanche of rock under the inS mense ni bodies of sno snow W wil which ap 11 I 1 lay in ili grgo fiodi altin ads a and per perhaps bips a tsou s saua joa rj floi titi 11 1 1 w i 1 f p hins bams the te snow of very or nata t a P a t thousand housan d feet I 1 il dept arid two or ahree li andred abet across ext evid aig with the mountain for a seat greal ditan cB I 1 I 1 in descending froan a rarified ramified to a denso dense atmosphere ill hose ose who had not bee n seriously affected by tile the ascent came in for their sha a of the general difficulty in ill breathing we hud had our full share and were for a time entirely to travel more than a few rods at a time liine without laying down oil the or gound g to rest on the alth the pary parly reached portland Port lana having been just a week engaged in lie he exploration |