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Show Oregon's Great Volcano. The highest mountain now existing In Oregon. Mount Hood, la only 11.-125 11.-125 feet high, but there waa a time, probably before the dawn of life upon the earth, when a great volcano lowered far above Mount Hood, and probably several thouaand feet. This was the great Mount Maiama. Hut thousands of years ago this mountain disappeared Into tbe bowels of the earth, and all that la now left la the huge rim around Crater Lake, tbe Inside In-side walls or which are nearly 4.000 feet high and almost perpendicular. The crater la about all miles wide, and the lake within It Is In some placea t.000 feet deep. |